Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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Page 191
... Death is painted , one may speculate at ease over the fragility of existence , and , within the sound of that dark ocean , Whose tumultuous waves Are heaped , contending ghosts , one may understand how it is that Death is mightier ...
... Death is painted , one may speculate at ease over the fragility of existence , and , within the sound of that dark ocean , Whose tumultuous waves Are heaped , contending ghosts , one may understand how it is that Death is mightier ...
Page 193
... death , ' of death coming like a summer cloud over the soul . ' Let her deathly life pass into death , ' says one of his earliest characters , ' like music on the night wind . ' And , in Death's Fest Book , Sibylla has the same thoughts : O ...
... death , ' of death coming like a summer cloud over the soul . ' Let her deathly life pass into death , ' says one of his earliest characters , ' like music on the night wind . ' And , in Death's Fest Book , Sibylla has the same thoughts : O ...
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... death of Mr. Walpole's cat , and the death of a head of a college from a sur- feit of mackerel , equally afford matter for his delicate laughter , just as his own death does . " The spirit of laziness , ' he writes from Cambridge ...
... death of Mr. Walpole's cat , and the death of a head of a college from a sur- feit of mackerel , equally afford matter for his delicate laughter , just as his own death does . " The spirit of laziness , ' he writes from Cambridge ...
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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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