Elizabethan and Other EssaysClarendon Press, 1929 - 344 pagini |
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Pagina 36
... living theme can at best be a torso , a fragment . There clings to it , too , a savour either of the scandal or of the unbalanced laudation which living men rarely escape . Politicians , while they are yet active on the political stage ...
... living theme can at best be a torso , a fragment . There clings to it , too , a savour either of the scandal or of the unbalanced laudation which living men rarely escape . Politicians , while they are yet active on the political stage ...
Pagina 76
... living men , careers which are incomplete , because death withholds the finishing touch . No man is fit subject for biography till he be dead . Living men have been made themes of so - called biographies , but the choice inspires a ...
... living men , careers which are incomplete , because death withholds the finishing touch . No man is fit subject for biography till he be dead . Living men have been made themes of so - called biographies , but the choice inspires a ...
Pagina 77
... living biography may be logically relegated . It may stir a transient interest . It will in any case go to swell the heap of raw material which the true biographer will have to sift . But in itself the biography of a living man lacks ...
... living biography may be logically relegated . It may stir a transient interest . It will in any case go to swell the heap of raw material which the true biographer will have to sift . But in itself the biography of a living man lacks ...
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The Place of English Literature in the Modern | 1 |
Modern Language Research | 19 |
Principles of Biography | 31 |
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