Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... epigrams were transcribed by every letter - writer , and got by heart by every wit . Nothing , perhaps , shows more clearly the gulf which divides us from our ancestors of the eighteenth century , than a comparison between our thoughts ...
... epigrams were transcribed by every letter - writer , and got by heart by every wit . Nothing , perhaps , shows more clearly the gulf which divides us from our ancestors of the eighteenth century , than a comparison between our thoughts ...
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... epigrams , while his villains commit murder in inversions . Amid the hurly - burly of artificiality , it was all his cleverness could do to keep its head to the wind ; and he was only able to remain afloat at all by throwing overboard ...
... epigrams , while his villains commit murder in inversions . Amid the hurly - burly of artificiality , it was all his cleverness could do to keep its head to the wind ; and he was only able to remain afloat at all by throwing overboard ...
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... epigrams transfigured by passion and the highest splendours of art . One reads them , and one is filled , in a ... epigram ; it aims at producing an impression which , so far from being final , must be merely the prelude to a long series ...
... epigrams transfigured by passion and the highest splendours of art . One reads them , and one is filled , in a ... epigram ; it aims at producing an impression which , so far from being final , must be merely the prelude to a long series ...
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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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