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... Miss Lee , whose English is never good , and who writes , on p . 135 , ' Who would believe that others exist who pride themselves in not thinking like anyone else thinks ? ' The actual translation , too , is often unfortu- nately ...
... Miss Lee , whose English is never good , and who writes , on p . 135 , ' Who would believe that others exist who pride themselves in not thinking like anyone else thinks ? ' The actual translation , too , is often unfortu- nately ...
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... Miss Lee's , translation , ' with much ado gathers the exquisite plum ' ; in La Bruyère ' il cueille artistement cette prune exquise ' : this is exactly how Miss Lee should have treated her exquisite original . But La Bruyère was not ...
... Miss Lee's , translation , ' with much ado gathers the exquisite plum ' ; in La Bruyère ' il cueille artistement cette prune exquise ' : this is exactly how Miss Lee should have treated her exquisite original . But La Bruyère was not ...
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... Miss Burney's characters , to use Macaulay's phrase , are in reality nothing but ' humours , ' and not characters at all ; and immediately this is recognised , immediately ' humours ' is substituted for ' characters ' in Burke's ...
... Miss Burney's characters , to use Macaulay's phrase , are in reality nothing but ' humours , ' and not characters at all ; and immediately this is recognised , immediately ' humours ' is substituted for ' characters ' in Burke's ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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| Title | Literary Essays His Collected works Volume 5 of Strachey: The coll. works The Collected works of Lytton Strachey, Lytton Strachey |
| Author | Lytton Strachey |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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