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... appears for the first time as he should have appeared long ago as a classic . The get - up of these four quarto volumes - though it cannot be said to equal the perfect amenity of the Baskerville edition of 1761 — is admirable ; and the ...
... appears for the first time as he should have appeared long ago as a classic . The get - up of these four quarto volumes - though it cannot be said to equal the perfect amenity of the Baskerville edition of 1761 — is admirable ; and the ...
Page 76
... appears ; but it appears only like the shadowings of painture , which , being to cause the round- ing of it , cannot be absent ; but while that is considered , they are lost : so while we attend to the other 76 RACINE.
... appears ; but it appears only like the shadowings of painture , which , being to cause the round- ing of it , cannot be absent ; but while that is considered , they are lost : so while we attend to the other 76 RACINE.
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... appears in Miss Lee's selections , which are confined almost entirely to those ' portraits of the more or less trifling eccentricities of men , ' which give no true im- pression of the width and profundity of La Bruyère's mind . He was ...
... appears in Miss Lee's selections , which are confined almost entirely to those ' portraits of the more or less trifling eccentricities of men , ' which give no true im- pression of the width and profundity of La Bruyère's mind . He was ...
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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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