Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... ancient masterpieces or in the newest phases of the Arts . And if he takes advantage of such opportunities as present them- selves from time to time to put forward opinions and judgments upon literary and academic themes , his critics vii.
... ancient masterpieces or in the newest phases of the Arts . And if he takes advantage of such opportunities as present them- selves from time to time to put forward opinions and judgments upon literary and academic themes , his critics vii.
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... admirable as is the quality of French criticism , there is no need to go beyond our own literature , or farther back than the present century , for a storehouse of great master- 66 pieces of the art . I have already spoken 22 I CRITICISM.
... admirable as is the quality of French criticism , there is no need to go beyond our own literature , or farther back than the present century , for a storehouse of great master- 66 pieces of the art . I have already spoken 22 I CRITICISM.
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... , 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 BIOGRAPHY.
... , 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 BIOGRAPHY.
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Herbert Henry Asquith. The case of Shakespeare presents , perhaps , the strangest array of difficulties and paradoxes in the whole range of biography . The most splendid genius of his own or any other time has left behind him hardly a ...
Herbert Henry Asquith. The case of Shakespeare presents , perhaps , the strangest array of difficulties and paradoxes in the whole range of biography . The most splendid genius of his own or any other time has left behind him hardly a ...
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... present a more vivid contrast in fewer words between two great and distinguished men . But I must leave autobiography and turn for a few moments to biography in the stricter sense -the writing of one man's life by another . In that form ...
... present a more vivid contrast in fewer words between two great and distinguished men . But I must leave autobiography and turn for a few moments to biography in the stricter sense -the writing of one man's life by another . In that form ...
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