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... has never been done , and who only receives at the hands of Mr. Palmer some rather grudging commendation . ... for doing with absolute aplomb whatever he laid his hand to , from the writing of comedies to the building of castles .
... has never been done , and who only receives at the hands of Mr. Palmer some rather grudging commendation . ... for doing with absolute aplomb whatever he laid his hand to , from the writing of comedies to the building of castles .
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What an immortal figure the dim Mrs. Horton would have become in the hands of Jane Austen ! In Nature and Art her attempts at social satire are superficial and overstrained . But weaknesses of this kind — and it would be easy to prolong ...
What an immortal figure the dim Mrs. Horton would have become in the hands of Jane Austen ! In Nature and Art her attempts at social satire are superficial and overstrained . But weaknesses of this kind — and it would be easy to prolong ...
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And what shoulder , and what art , Could twist the sinews of thy heart ? And when thy heart began to beat , What dread hand ? and what dread feet ? So Blake engraved the verse ; and , as Mr. Sampson points out , ' the terrible ...
And what shoulder , and what art , Could twist the sinews of thy heart ? And when thy heart began to beat , What dread hand ? and what dread feet ? So Blake engraved the verse ; and , as Mr. Sampson points out , ' the terrible ...
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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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