Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... less un- mistakably unrabelaisian . The great Curé of Meudon may perhaps be described as a satirist ; but he was certainly the best - natured satirist who ever lived . No doubt , too , he was a reformer - almost a revolutionary ; but of ...
... less un- mistakably unrabelaisian . The great Curé of Meudon may perhaps be described as a satirist ; but he was certainly the best - natured satirist who ever lived . No doubt , too , he was a reformer - almost a revolutionary ; but of ...
Page 95
... less have been drowned . ' Could anything be more ingenious , or more neatly put , or more obviously true ? But then , to use Johnson's own phrase , could anything be of less ' relation to the purpose ?? It is his wit - and we are ...
... less have been drowned . ' Could anything be more ingenious , or more neatly put , or more obviously true ? But then , to use Johnson's own phrase , could anything be of less ' relation to the purpose ?? It is his wit - and we are ...
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... less profoundly , an age of leisure . The conflict and torment of the religious struggles , into which the whole energies of the Renaissance had been plunged , were over ; the infinite agitations ushered in by the French Revolu- tion ...
... less profoundly , an age of leisure . The conflict and torment of the religious struggles , into which the whole energies of the Renaissance had been plunged , were over ; the infinite agitations ushered in by the French Revolu- tion ...
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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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