Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... sense of contrast which this short phrase conveys , if his vocabulary had been limited , in accordance with a linguistic theory , to words of a single stock ? There is , of course , no doubt that Browne's vocabulary is extraordinarily ...
... sense of contrast which this short phrase conveys , if his vocabulary had been limited , in accordance with a linguistic theory , to words of a single stock ? There is , of course , no doubt that Browne's vocabulary is extraordinarily ...
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... sense , in short , of the relations between man and the universe ; and , since Racine is without this quality , his claim to true poetic greatness must be denied . But , even upon the supposition that this view of Racine's philosophical ...
... sense , in short , of the relations between man and the universe ; and , since Racine is without this quality , his claim to true poetic greatness must be denied . But , even upon the supposition that this view of Racine's philosophical ...
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... sense in which the imputation is true enough . The age was certainly ' artificial ' in so far as it was the very contrary of being spontaneous ; it was a highly elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ...
... sense in which the imputation is true enough . The age was certainly ' artificial ' in so far as it was the very contrary of being spontaneous ; it was a highly elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ...
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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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