Letters to XConstable, 1919 - 298 páginas |
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... literature old and new , accompanied by an odd topic or two for the sake of diversity , not , however , meant to be quite so irrelevant as they may appear . You are , besides , an excuse for my not confining these letters to the exact ...
... literature old and new , accompanied by an odd topic or two for the sake of diversity , not , however , meant to be quite so irrelevant as they may appear . You are , besides , an excuse for my not confining these letters to the exact ...
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... literature , for the sake not of the office boy but the literature . I cannot but feel ( despite some individual examples to the contrary ) that a nation which loves letters is a nation of I once put it to one of these incredibly ...
... literature , for the sake not of the office boy but the literature . I cannot but feel ( despite some individual examples to the contrary ) that a nation which loves letters is a nation of I once put it to one of these incredibly ...
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... literature depends for its life upon a choice of traditions . Therein lies the salvation of letters from a mere predestination- in the element of choice . It does not indeed take away from the difficulty of this plea that one has to ...
... literature depends for its life upon a choice of traditions . Therein lies the salvation of letters from a mere predestination- in the element of choice . It does not indeed take away from the difficulty of this plea that one has to ...
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... literature that has survived into our century has been rescued from forgetfulness by the elixir of form . Obviously , composite motives and cir- cumstances account for these preservations . What I do mean is that form is so vital and ...
... literature that has survived into our century has been rescued from forgetfulness by the elixir of form . Obviously , composite motives and cir- cumstances account for these preservations . What I do mean is that form is so vital and ...
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... literature . To my mind it is pre- posterous to deny form to Browning . His form was mobile rather than static , but it was there - the fledged and shining phoenix adventurously winged out of the ashes which were once the strenuous ...
... literature . To my mind it is pre- posterous to deny form to Browning . His form was mobile rather than static , but it was there - the fledged and shining phoenix adventurously winged out of the ashes which were once the strenuous ...
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