Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... taste , let us hope , has changed since the days of Ingres ; Shakespeare would doubtless now be advanced - though perhaps chiefly from a sense of duty - to the very steps of the central throne . But if an English painter were to choose ...
... taste , let us hope , has changed since the days of Ingres ; Shakespeare would doubtless now be advanced - though perhaps chiefly from a sense of duty - to the very steps of the central throne . But if an English painter were to choose ...
Page 162
... taste in music and painting was the taste of his time — the literary and sentimental taste of the age of Rossini and Canova -he nevertheless brought to the appreciation of works of art a kind of intimate gusto which reveals the ...
... taste in music and painting was the taste of his time — the literary and sentimental taste of the age of Rossini and Canova -he nevertheless brought to the appreciation of works of art a kind of intimate gusto which reveals the ...
Page 280
... taste , and of common sense so far , as would have enabled them to commit to paper the hideous balderdash , for instance , which goes by the name of Cain ; none save Byron could have hypnotised Europe into believing that that work was ...
... taste , and of common sense so far , as would have enabled them to commit to paper the hideous balderdash , for instance , which goes by the name of Cain ; none save Byron could have hypnotised Europe into believing that that work was ...
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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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