Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... gives his view as to the then state of English poetry . Recollect that he was writing at a time when not only himself and Scott , but Wordsworth , Shelley , and Coleridge had produced their greatest works , and when Keats , whose ...
... gives his view as to the then state of English poetry . Recollect that he was writing at a time when not only himself and Scott , but Wordsworth , Shelley , and Coleridge had produced their greatest works , and when Keats , whose ...
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... give would be confined to a couple of seeming commonplaces which appear to me to sum up all that can be wisely said upon the matter , and that is , first , to study great models , and secondly , to practise diligently for yourself . As ...
... give would be confined to a couple of seeming commonplaces which appear to me to sum up all that can be wisely said upon the matter , and that is , first , to study great models , and secondly , to practise diligently for yourself . As ...
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... give us also his environment . It is here that so many autobiographies , being little more than the outpouring of self - conscious- ness , disappoint and baffle us . But here , again , Haydon appears to me to merit a high place . He is ...
... give us also his environment . It is here that so many autobiographies , being little more than the outpouring of self - conscious- ness , disappoint and baffle us . But here , again , Haydon appears to me to merit a high place . He is ...
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... give you a portrait of Wilkie , our great Fife painter , who was his fellow- student , and his best friend through life . They visited Paris together in 1814 , after the first over- throw of Napoleon . Haydon says that " not ...
... give you a portrait of Wilkie , our great Fife painter , who was his fellow- student , and his best friend through life . They visited Paris together in 1814 , after the first over- throw of Napoleon . Haydon says that " not ...
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... gives vividness , charm , undying freshness to the pages of Boswell and Lockhart . The biographer who has not this advantage and has to seek for it elsewhere is often in sore straits for the material which he needs . Do you remember Dr ...
... gives vividness , charm , undying freshness to the pages of Boswell and Lockhart . The biographer who has not this advantage and has to seek for it elsewhere is often in sore straits for the material which he needs . Do you remember Dr ...
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