Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... never knew a man , ' he wrote after Lord Lytton's death , ' towards whom I felt so warmly and to whom I owed so much .... I shall always regard it as one of the most fortunate circumstances of my life that I was for many years one of ...
... never knew a man , ' he wrote after Lord Lytton's death , ' towards whom I felt so warmly and to whom I owed so much .... I shall always regard it as one of the most fortunate circumstances of my life that I was for many years one of ...
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... never heard before ; but merely by maintaining a progress , and resolving , as a postillion does , having once set out , never to stop , till we reach the appointed end . If a man may talk without thinking , why may not he write upon ...
... never heard before ; but merely by maintaining a progress , and resolving , as a postillion does , having once set out , never to stop , till we reach the appointed end . If a man may talk without thinking , why may not he write upon ...
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... never commonplace , never superficial , never slipshod , and never at rest . ' From the " Paradise Lost " and other works of Milton , ' he wrote to Reynolds in 1818 , ' I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves , to say ...
... never commonplace , never superficial , never slipshod , and never at rest . ' From the " Paradise Lost " and other works of Milton , ' he wrote to Reynolds in 1818 , ' I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves , to say ...
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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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