Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1892 - 194 страница Collection of essays. |
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... characters of trick and catch - word , were not empty comic masks . Behind each the human heart was beating ; and ever and again we were allowed to see the features of the man . Thus fiction in your hands was not simply a profession ...
... characters of trick and catch - word , were not empty comic masks . Behind each the human heart was beating ; and ever and again we were allowed to see the features of the man . Thus fiction in your hands was not simply a profession ...
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... characters , either to the sweet passiveness of Emmy or to the sensitive and jealous affections of Helen ? ' Tis Heaven , not you , that made them so ; and they are easily pardoned , both for being a very little lower than the angels ...
... characters , either to the sweet passiveness of Emmy or to the sensitive and jealous affections of Helen ? ' Tis Heaven , not you , that made them so ; and they are easily pardoned , both for being a very little lower than the angels ...
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... characters on the stage . Nor , to my taste , does the mere music and melancholy dignity of your style in these passages of medi- tation fall far below the highest efforts of poetry . I remember that scene where Clive , at Barnes ...
... characters on the stage . Nor , to my taste , does the mere music and melancholy dignity of your style in these passages of medi- tation fall far below the highest efforts of poetry . I remember that scene where Clive , at Barnes ...
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... characters , as- suredly , are your best ; by them , though stupid people cannot read about them , you will live while there is a laugh left among us . Perhaps that does not assure you a very prolonged exist- ence , but only the future ...
... characters , as- suredly , are your best ; by them , though stupid people cannot read about them , you will live while there is a laugh left among us . Perhaps that does not assure you a very prolonged exist- ence , but only the future ...
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... Character they spare , Comes the Biographer , and strips it bare ! Such , Pope , has been thy Fortune , such thy Doom . Swift the Ghouls gathered at the Poet's Tomb , With Dust of Notes to clog each lordly Linc , 40 LETTERS TO DEAD ...
... Character they spare , Comes the Biographer , and strips it bare ! Such , Pope , has been thy Fortune , such thy Doom . Swift the Ghouls gathered at the Poet's Tomb , With Dust of Notes to clog each lordly Linc , 40 LETTERS TO DEAD ...
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admiration Alemanni Alexandre Dumas ANDREW LANG angler bad poets Bibline wine blessed Boileau Brother John burn Byron called Cask of Amontillado Chapelain clepen Coqcigrues cried critic D'Artagnan DEAD AUTHORS didst thou dread drink dwell Edgar Allan Poe England Englishmen evil fair farewell Father fortunate Franck Françoys Rabelais friends Galashiels genius Gods happy hath heart HERMES Herodotus heroines Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laurel learned LETTERS TO DEAD literary live Lond of Egypt Lucian matter methinks Molière Muscovy Muses never Pantagruel Panurge passions poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest prose Pucelle Puimorin Rabelais racter Ronsard Rose satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst Thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout verse wandering waters write Ynde
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