Letters to XConstable, 1919 - 298 páginas |
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... common butt of the wiseacre from generation to generation - though for what purpose great men write books , except to be read and judged , if not in their own time in another , I cannot tell . At any rate , there seems to me to be a ...
... common butt of the wiseacre from generation to generation - though for what purpose great men write books , except to be read and judged , if not in their own time in another , I cannot tell . At any rate , there seems to me to be a ...
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... common sense . In some ways he reminds you of an orator apostrophizing an audience ( the Vic- torians ) who are no longer there , owing perhaps to that love of verbal counterplay which spoils so much of his work . But what jolly things ...
... common sense . In some ways he reminds you of an orator apostrophizing an audience ( the Vic- torians ) who are no longer there , owing perhaps to that love of verbal counterplay which spoils so much of his work . But what jolly things ...
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... common- wealth . The whole question depends on the expansion or contraction of the meaning of art . If we assume that humanity in its individual or collective aims contains within itself the seed of an artistic purpose , then it is the ...
... common- wealth . The whole question depends on the expansion or contraction of the meaning of art . If we assume that humanity in its individual or collective aims contains within itself the seed of an artistic purpose , then it is the ...
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... common denominator of the public consciousness . But the taste that appeals to and expresses the highest common factor of the public's needs is just as representative and a thousand times more in- dispensable . In the same way a writer ...
... common denominator of the public consciousness . But the taste that appeals to and expresses the highest common factor of the public's needs is just as representative and a thousand times more in- dispensable . In the same way a writer ...
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... common : they were supreme artists ; they were contemporaries , and they both wrote verse . Michael Angelo wrote marmoreal sonnets ; Dürer wrote doggerel . Differences in natural genius account in part , of course , for this . But their ...
... common : they were supreme artists ; they were contemporaries , and they both wrote verse . Michael Angelo wrote marmoreal sonnets ; Dürer wrote doggerel . Differences in natural genius account in part , of course , for this . But their ...
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achieved Addison æsthetic amateur artist beauty Ben Jonson bookseller cant classical contemporary course critic Davies DEAR DEAR X divine Don Quixote Donne doth edition eighteenth century Elizabethan English Euphuism example expression eyes feeling Flecker folio free verse Gabriel Harvey genius give hand hath heaven Henry James human idea imagination Imagists inspiration James Mabbe Jonson kind Lamb less letters Lillo literary tradition literature live look material meaning metaphysic method metre Michael Field mind modern moral natural never novelists novels Parnassian partly passion personality phrase plays poet poetic poetry possessed prefatory poem present prose pseudo-picturesque Ralph Hodgson reader realistic rhyme romantic satire satirist sense Shakespeare sonnet soul spirit style surely taste thee thing Thomas Thomas Coryate thou thought tion to-day translation Vaughan W. H. Davies whole words write wrote