Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1892 - 194 страница Collection of essays. |
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... live and die without being conscious of any invidious philo- sophic partiality whatever . With more truth ( though that does not imply very much ) every Englishman who reads may be said to be a partisan of yourself or of Mr. Thackeray ...
... live and die without being conscious of any invidious philo- sophic partiality whatever . With more truth ( though that does not imply very much ) every Englishman who reads may be said to be a partisan of yourself or of Mr. Thackeray ...
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... live while there is a laugh left among us . Perhaps that does not assure you a very prolonged exist- ence , but only the future can show . The dismal seriousness of the time cannot , let us hope , last for ever and a day . Honest old ...
... live while there is a laugh left among us . Perhaps that does not assure you a very prolonged exist- ence , but only the future can show . The dismal seriousness of the time cannot , let us hope , last for ever and a day . Honest old ...
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... live in , when good in- tentions in poetry were more richly endowed than ever is Research , even Research in Pre- historic English , among us niggard moderns ! How I wish I knew a Cardinal , or even , as you did , a Prime Minister , who ...
... live in , when good in- tentions in poetry were more richly endowed than ever is Research , even Research in Pre- historic English , among us niggard moderns ! How I wish I knew a Cardinal , or even , as you did , a Prime Minister , who ...
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... live , frolic , kindly , and sane , but even your very colla- borators were animated by the virtue which went out of you . How else can we explain it , the dreary charge which feeble and envious tongues have brought against you , in ...
... live , frolic , kindly , and sane , but even your very colla- borators were animated by the virtue which went out of you . How else can we explain it , the dreary charge which feeble and envious tongues have brought against you , in ...
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... so long in settling above your tomb . For us it is enough to know that you were compelled to live by your pen , and that in an age when the author of " To Helen " and " The Cask of Amontillado " was paid at the rate of EDGAR ALLAN POE .
... so long in settling above your tomb . For us it is enough to know that you were compelled to live by your pen , and that in an age when the author of " To Helen " and " The Cask of Amontillado " was paid at the rate of EDGAR ALLAN POE .
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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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