Letters to XConstable, 1919 - 298 páginas |
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... critic who will read them and judge them . But why should the conceit of my later maturity assume that I could have written . better ones to - day ? If they are bad , I am no better ; if pleasant enough , no worse . I will commit myself ...
... critic who will read them and judge them . But why should the conceit of my later maturity assume that I could have written . better ones to - day ? If they are bad , I am no better ; if pleasant enough , no worse . I will commit myself ...
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... critic and the reader have been the 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 ...
... critic and the reader have been the 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 ...
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... critic who has blessed us since Coleridge : " It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition and an endless amount of tradition to make even a little taste and an endless amount of taste , by the same token , to ...
... critic who has blessed us since Coleridge : " It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition and an endless amount of tradition to make even a little taste and an endless amount of taste , by the same token , to ...
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... critic . Neither in him nor the others is there anything to touch the admirable perspective , the large and copious present- ment , the detached mastery of " Emmanuel Burden , ” or the fancy , delicacy and artful carelessness of ...
... critic . Neither in him nor the others is there anything to touch the admirable perspective , the large and copious present- ment , the detached mastery of " Emmanuel Burden , ” or the fancy , delicacy and artful carelessness of ...
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... critic he was the only Augustan to appreciate Milton and to read Shakespeare , regardless of Aristotle . As a satirist , he sufficiently explains himself : " I did not design so much to expose vice as idleness , and aim at those persons ...
... critic he was the only Augustan to appreciate Milton and to read Shakespeare , regardless of Aristotle . As a satirist , he sufficiently explains himself : " I did not design so much to expose vice as idleness , and aim at those persons ...
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