Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... brought to their highest perfection in the same mental climate and environment . Such a theory squares very ill both with the psychology of intellectual production , and with the facts recorded in the history of literature and art . It ...
... brought to their highest perfection in the same mental climate and environment . Such a theory squares very ill both with the psychology of intellectual production , and with the facts recorded in the history of literature and art . It ...
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... brought out the volume which contains Hyperion , Isabella , Lamia , and The Eve of St. Agnes . What is the judgment of Byron ? " That this is the age of the decline of English poetry , " he writes , be doubted by few who have calmly ...
... brought out the volume which contains Hyperion , Isabella , Lamia , and The Eve of St. Agnes . What is the judgment of Byron ? " That this is the age of the decline of English poetry , " he writes , be doubted by few who have calmly ...
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... brought forth his master- pieces with the serene detachment , the uncalcu- lating profusion , the majestic effortlessness , which belong only to supreme genius . These illustrations will suffice . If time per- mitted I might easily add ...
... brought forth his master- pieces with the serene detachment , the uncalcu- lating profusion , the majestic effortlessness , which belong only to supreme genius . These illustrations will suffice . If time per- mitted I might easily add ...
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... brought ( for the time being ) to a close . The man who has on his shelves , and within easy reach , the sixty - six volumes of this monumental work need never be at a loss for intellectual nourishment and stimulus . Whatever may be his ...
... brought ( for the time being ) to a close . The man who has on his shelves , and within easy reach , the sixty - six volumes of this monumental work need never be at a loss for intellectual nourishment and stimulus . Whatever may be his ...
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... brought up can recall not a few doleful specimens . Mr. Disraeli speaks somewhere , I think in Coningsby , of a voluminous history which once had a great vogue as " Mr. Wordy's History of the War , in twenty volumes , to prove that ...
... brought up can recall not a few doleful specimens . Mr. Disraeli speaks somewhere , I think in Coningsby , of a voluminous history which once had a great vogue as " Mr. Wordy's History of the War , in twenty volumes , to prove that ...
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