Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... once stimulated and soured the critical faculty . But it is not in this dwarfed and distorted sense that we are using the term to - day . Denigration , whether it springs from baffled rivalry , or from a morose and cynical temper , or ...
... once stimulated and soured the critical faculty . But it is not in this dwarfed and distorted sense that we are using the term to - day . Denigration , whether it springs from baffled rivalry , or from a morose and cynical temper , or ...
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... scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life of a man at once so illustrious and so obscure as the greatest of our poets . The case of Shakespeare presents , perhaps , the strangest II 31 ...
... scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life of a man at once so illustrious and so obscure as the greatest of our poets . The case of Shakespeare presents , perhaps , the strangest II 31 ...
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... once rarest and , when achieved , most complete - autobiography . It may , I think , be laid down , as a maxim of ex- perience , without undue severity , that few auto- biographies are really good literature . And the reason lies upon ...
... once rarest and , when achieved , most complete - autobiography . It may , I think , be laid down , as a maxim of ex- perience , without undue severity , that few auto- biographies are really good literature . And the reason lies upon ...
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... once the most shameless and the most successful specimen of its class , the Confessions of Rousseau . His object , he tells us , was to show a man ( meaning himself ) in all the truth of nature , and his belief is ( as he also avows ) ...
... once the most shameless and the most successful specimen of its class , the Confessions of Rousseau . His object , he tells us , was to show a man ( meaning himself ) in all the truth of nature , and his belief is ( as he also avows ) ...
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... Once I remember , " he goes on , " Bentham came to see Leigh Hunt in Surrey Jail , and played battle- dore and shuttlecock with him . Hunt told me after of the profound powers of Bentham's mind . He proposed , said Hunt , a reform in ...
... Once I remember , " he goes on , " Bentham came to see Leigh Hunt in Surrey Jail , and played battle- dore and shuttlecock with him . Hunt told me after of the profound powers of Bentham's mind . He proposed , said Hunt , a reform in ...
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