Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... reason is to make an appeal to a tribunal whose jurisdiction he had always refused to recognise as binding . In fact , to Blake's mind , the laws of reason were nothing but a horrible phantasm deluding and perplexing mankind , from ...
... reason is to make an appeal to a tribunal whose jurisdiction he had always refused to recognise as binding . In fact , to Blake's mind , the laws of reason were nothing but a horrible phantasm deluding and perplexing mankind , from ...
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... reason - because he possessed so many of them in an extreme degree . The idealism , the daring , the imagination , and the unconventionality which give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were ...
... reason - because he possessed so many of them in an extreme degree . The idealism , the daring , the imagination , and the unconventionality which give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were ...
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... reason why I should write - but I have nothing to say . This seems equally a good reason why I should not . Yet if you had alighted from your horse at our door this morning , and at this present writing , being five o'clock in the ...
... reason why I should write - but I have nothing to say . This seems equally a good reason why I should not . Yet if you had alighted from your horse at our door this morning , and at this present writing , being five o'clock in the ...
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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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