The Quarterly Review, Volumes 260-261William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1933 |
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... Lytton Strachey paused a moment in his graceful progress to Parnassus , to kick him contemptuously from the classic road . His short sketch of Creevey , in his Books and Characters , ' is admittedly nothing more than a fine writer's ...
... Lytton Strachey paused a moment in his graceful progress to Parnassus , to kick him contemptuously from the classic road . His short sketch of Creevey , in his Books and Characters , ' is admittedly nothing more than a fine writer's ...
Page 326
... Lytton Strachey has as many malicious labels for poor Creevey as that coiner of nicknames had for his Whig friends and Tory foes . He calls him ' little wretch , ' a leaf in an eddy of wind , ' ' an apish , impish creature tittering and ...
... Lytton Strachey has as many malicious labels for poor Creevey as that coiner of nicknames had for his Whig friends and Tory foes . He calls him ' little wretch , ' a leaf in an eddy of wind , ' ' an apish , impish creature tittering and ...
Page 327
... Lytton Strachey : ' We know nothing of his youth save that he was educated at Cambridge , and he presents himself to us as a middle - aged man with a character and a habit of mind already fixed and an established position in the world ...
... Lytton Strachey : ' We know nothing of his youth save that he was educated at Cambridge , and he presents himself to us as a middle - aged man with a character and a habit of mind already fixed and an established position in the world ...
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an American View ART CONTENTS No 514 OCTOBER | 1 |
Feud and Friendship in the Animal World | 2 |
A Map for Civilisation | 3 |
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