Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1886 - 234 страница |
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... critic when he has a mind to praise the living . He may dread the charge of writing rather to vex a rival than to exalt the subject of his applause . He shuns the appearance of seeking the favour of the famous , and would not willingly ...
... critic when he has a mind to praise the living . He may dread the charge of writing rather to vex a rival than to exalt the subject of his applause . He shuns the appearance of seeking the favour of the famous , and would not willingly ...
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... critic be quite new to the world of letters , he may superfluously fear to vex a poet or a novelist by the abundance of his eulogy . No such doubts perplex us when , with all our hearts , we would com- mend the departed ; for they have ...
... critic be quite new to the world of letters , he may superfluously fear to vex a poet or a novelist by the abundance of his eulogy . No such doubts perplex us when , with all our hearts , we would com- mend the departed ; for they have ...
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... critic , M. Taine , also protests that you do preach too much . Did any author but yourself so frequently break the thread ( seldom a strong thread ) of his plot to converse with his reader and moralise his tale , we also might be ...
... critic , M. Taine , also protests that you do preach too much . Did any author but yourself so frequently break the thread ( seldom a strong thread ) of his plot to converse with his reader and moralise his tale , we also might be ...
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... generation ago ? Jeffrey , the hard- headed shallow critic , who declared that Wordsworth ' would never do , ' cried , ' wept like anything , ' over your Little Nell . One still laughs as heartily as ever 16 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS.
... generation ago ? Jeffrey , the hard- headed shallow critic , who declared that Wordsworth ' would never do , ' cried , ' wept like anything , ' over your Little Nell . One still laughs as heartily as ever 16 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS.
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... Critics . In their time they wrought thee much evil , grumbling that thou wrotest in Greek and Latin ( of which tongues certain of them had but little skill ) , and blaming thy many lyric melodies and the free flow of thy lines . What ...
... Critics . In their time they wrought thee much evil , grumbling that thou wrotest in Greek and Latin ( of which tongues certain of them had but little skill ) , and blaming thy many lyric melodies and the free flow of thy lines . What ...
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admirers Alemanni Alexandre Dumas angler Athene Benfeius burn Byron called Catullus Chapelain clepen comedy concerning Herodotus Coqcigrues cries critic dawn DEAD AUTHORS dear Dickens didst thou Dombey and Son drink dwell Egypt England Englishmen evil fair fancy Farewell Father fortunate France Françoys Rabelais friends genius Gods grave happy hath heart heathen HERMES Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laughter laurel learned letters literary live Lond Lord Byron Lucian Maître Françoys matter Medes methinks Molière Muellerus Muscovy Muses never Panurge Pierre de Ronsard poems poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest Prince prose Rabelais Ronsard Rose Sam Weller satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout turn verse wandering wine write Ynde Zeus
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