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... vision of virtue and beauty triumphant over ugliness and vice fails to dispel a total effect of horror and of gloom ... visions , a world of hopeless anachronisms , a world in which anything may happen next . The pretences of reality are ...
... vision of virtue and beauty triumphant over ugliness and vice fails to dispel a total effect of horror and of gloom ... visions , a world of hopeless anachronisms , a world in which anything may happen next . The pretences of reality are ...
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... vision , he complains , does not ' take in the whole of life ' ; we do not find in his plays ' the whole pell - mell of human existence ' ; and this is true , because the particular effects which Racine wished to produce necessarily ...
... vision , he complains , does not ' take in the whole of life ' ; we do not find in his plays ' the whole pell - mell of human existence ' ; and this is true , because the particular effects which Racine wished to produce necessarily ...
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... vision upon vision . ' I was passing his tomb the other day in Cripplegate Churchyard . There are some verses upon it written by Miss — , which if I thought good enough I would send you . He was one of those who would have hailed your ...
... vision upon vision . ' I was passing his tomb the other day in Cripplegate Churchyard . There are some verses upon it written by Miss — , which if I thought good enough I would send you . He was one of those who would have hailed your ...
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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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