Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... famous gibe of Lord Beaconsfield , himself a great man of letters and a great man of action , who in both characters had had more than his share of ungenerous treatment from the commentators of the day , " the critics are the men who ...
... famous gibe of Lord Beaconsfield , himself a great man of letters and a great man of action , who in both characters had had more than his share of ungenerous treatment from the commentators of the day , " the critics are the men who ...
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... famous examples - criticism becomes a mere vehicle for the trenchant and fervid exposition of a creed in which the writer himself has a vivid faith , and for the defence of which he often finds his most effective plan of campaign to ...
... famous examples - criticism becomes a mere vehicle for the trenchant and fervid exposition of a creed in which the writer himself has a vivid faith , and for the defence of which he often finds his most effective plan of campaign to ...
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... famous review of Lockhart's Life of Scott . It seems to us , " he says in a burst of the most challenging Carlylese , " that there goes other stuff to the making of great men than can be detected here . One knows not what idea worthy of ...
... famous review of Lockhart's Life of Scott . It seems to us , " he says in a burst of the most challenging Carlylese , " that there goes other stuff to the making of great men than can be detected here . One knows not what idea worthy of ...
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... famous and most widely studied writers . We are met here on the anniversary of the birth of the greatest of them all . Shake- speare , both as writer and as man , has been the object of a more insatiable and a more micro- scopic ...
... famous and most widely studied writers . We are met here on the anniversary of the birth of the greatest of them all . Shake- speare , both as writer and as man , has been the object of a more insatiable and a more micro- scopic ...
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... famous of our race . To take an obvious , and at the same time an extreme , instance , few things are more interesting to watch than the attempts of scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life ...
... famous of our race . To take an obvious , and at the same time an extreme , instance , few things are more interesting to watch than the attempts of scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life ...
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