The Great BiographersWhittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1936 - 223 pagini |
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Pagina 74
... thing - if not a better thing . So goes the biography , page after page , shrewd , witty , ill - tempered sayings by John ... things had happened but nothing had been fixed . There is no one's work , not even Cavendish's or 74 THE GREAT ...
... thing - if not a better thing . So goes the biography , page after page , shrewd , witty , ill - tempered sayings by John ... things had happened but nothing had been fixed . There is no one's work , not even Cavendish's or 74 THE GREAT ...
Pagina 108
... things Victorian - or hated things Victorian because he found in Victorians an abundance of these qualities . In any event the result is the same . But Stanley's blind zeal and Strachey's too keen - eyed cynicism are both unable to ...
... things Victorian - or hated things Victorian because he found in Victorians an abundance of these qualities . In any event the result is the same . But Stanley's blind zeal and Strachey's too keen - eyed cynicism are both unable to ...
Pagina 172
... things like that . " Naturally the boy asked why . " And I added that he said we ought to pray for things we needed , and that I needed the humming top a great deal more than I did the conversion of the heathen or the restitution of ...
... things like that . " Naturally the boy asked why . " And I added that he said we ought to pray for things we needed , and that I needed the humming top a great deal more than I did the conversion of the heathen or the restitution of ...
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INTRODUCTION | 4 |
THE PIONEERS | 15 |
THE DAWN OF THE RENAISSANCE | 27 |
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Abraham Lincoln American André Maurois appeared Arnold artist attitude autobiography Barnum Benson biog Boswell Byron cardinal Carlyle Cavendish Cellini chapter character Charlotte Brontë Colley Cibber course Cowan Bridge criticism death diary Dickens Disraeli Duke Edward Gibbon eighteenth century Einhard England English biography evidence example experience fact father Forster Francis Francis Hackett Franklin Froude Gaskell Gaskell's gentleman Gibbon Goethe Guedalla hagiography Henry Adams important intellectual interest James Anthony Froude John Johnson King letters Lewes's Lincoln literary literature lives London Lord Lytton Strachey material memory method mind modern moral novelist Oxford Pepys perhaps period Philip Guedalla philosopher Phineas Taylor Barnum phrase picture Plutarch poet Pope praise present probably raphy reader record remains result Scotch seems soul spirit Stuart student things Thomas tion truth understanding Vasari Victorian Victorian era Walton Weems Wolsey writing written wrote