Literary Essays |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 25
Page 58
... taste , let us hope , has changed since the days of Ingres ; Shakespeare would doubtless now be advanced - though perhaps chiefly from a sense of duty - to the very steps of the central throne . But if an English painter were to choose ...
... taste , let us hope , has changed since the days of Ingres ; Shakespeare would doubtless now be advanced - though perhaps chiefly from a sense of duty - to the very steps of the central throne . But if an English painter were to choose ...
Page 162
... taste in music and painting was the taste of his time — the literary and sentimental taste of the age of Rossini and Canova -he nevertheless brought to the appreciation of works of art a kind of intimate gusto which reveals the ...
... taste in music and painting was the taste of his time — the literary and sentimental taste of the age of Rossini and Canova -he nevertheless brought to the appreciation of works of art a kind of intimate gusto which reveals the ...
Page 211
... taste ; it was his mission to correct and enlighten the barbarism of his age ; he introduced the term ' philistine ' into England , and laughed at Lord Macaulay . Yet it is curious to observe the flagrant ineptitudes of judgment ...
... taste ; it was his mission to correct and enlighten the barbarism of his age ; he introduced the term ' philistine ' into England , and laughed at Lord Macaulay . Yet it is curious to observe the flagrant ineptitudes of judgment ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
Copyright | |
14 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able admiration appears beauty become Beddoes begins Beyle Browne certainly character characteristic charming complete criticism death difficult doubt effect eighteenth century elaborate Elizabethan English epigrams expression fact feeling force French genius give hand heart human humour imagination important instance interest Italy kind Lady least less letters light literary literature lived look Lord master means MICHIGAN mind Miss mysterious nature never obvious once original passage passion perhaps persons play poems poet poetry Pope present produced prose question Racine reader reason remarkable rest seems sense sentence Shakespeare side simple sometimes speak spirit story strange style suggests taste things thought tion tragedy true truth turned UNIVERSITY verse vision whole writing written wrote
Bibliographic information
| 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 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |