Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1892 - 194 страница Collection of essays. |
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... persons to yourself , and again from yourself to your persons , as from the odes of Sophocles or Aristophanes to the action of their characters on the stage . Nor , to my taste , does the mere music and melancholy dignity of your style ...
... persons to yourself , and again from yourself to your persons , as from the odes of Sophocles or Aristophanes to the action of their characters on the stage . Nor , to my taste , does the mere music and melancholy dignity of your style ...
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... fight and argue over their tastes in enjoyment . For myself , I may say that in this matter I am what the Americans do not call a " Mugwump , " what English politicians dub a " superior person that is , TO CHARLES DICKENS.
... fight and argue over their tastes in enjoyment . For myself , I may say that in this matter I am what the Americans do not call a " Mugwump , " what English politicians dub a " superior person that is , TO CHARLES DICKENS.
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Andrew Lang. English politicians dub a " superior person that is , I take no side , and attempt to enjoy the best of both . in It must be owned that this attitude is some- times made a little difficult by the vigour of your special ...
Andrew Lang. English politicians dub a " superior person that is , I take no side , and attempt to enjoy the best of both . in It must be owned that this attitude is some- times made a little difficult by the vigour of your special ...
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... persons " cannot read Dickens , " and are not ashamed to glory in their shame . We ought not to be angry with others for their misfortunes ; and yet when one meets the crétins who boast that they cannot read Dickens , one certainly does ...
... persons " cannot read Dickens , " and are not ashamed to glory in their shame . We ought not to be angry with others for their misfortunes ; and yet when one meets the crétins who boast that they cannot read Dickens , one certainly does ...
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... persons delighting in broad caricature , in decided colours , in cockney jokes , in swashing blows at the more prominent and obvious human follies- from these you derived the splendid high spirits and unhesitating mirth of your earlier ...
... persons delighting in broad caricature , in decided colours , in cockney jokes , in swashing blows at the more prominent and obvious human follies- from these you derived the splendid high spirits and unhesitating mirth of your earlier ...
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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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