Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... letters reveal . For there is something more in these volumes than a succession of good things : there is also what is present in every collection of letters worthy of notice - the portrait of a man . To open the book is to strike at ...
... letters reveal . For there is something more in these volumes than a succession of good things : there is also what is present in every collection of letters worthy of notice - the portrait of a man . To open the book is to strike at ...
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... letters ; and the vain chit - chat of Pliny's correspondence has outlived all the gravity of the letters of Tacitus . The end of Time is more favourable to epistolary immortality than its beginnings and its maturity : the bar- barism of ...
... letters ; and the vain chit - chat of Pliny's correspondence has outlived all the gravity of the letters of Tacitus . The end of Time is more favourable to epistolary immortality than its beginnings and its maturity : the bar- barism of ...
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... letters a position of pre - eminence unrivalled in English literature , and only paralleled by the letters of Vol- taire in the literature of the world . Voltaire , however , threw off his letters in the intervals of a multifarious ...
... letters a position of pre - eminence unrivalled in English literature , and only paralleled by the letters of Vol- taire in the literature of the world . Voltaire , however , threw off his letters in the intervals of a multifarious ...
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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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