The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... fact that , at almost its first serious test , things have not quite worked out as had been anticipated . It was merely one of those experiences which have their own special use ; and we may confi- dently assert that , whatever some ...
... fact that , at almost its first serious test , things have not quite worked out as had been anticipated . It was merely one of those experiences which have their own special use ; and we may confi- dently assert that , whatever some ...
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... fact that even men of genius and m of taste are among the readers who are impos upon nowadays by poetry and prose that do not tou the heart at all and that scarcely touch the mind , sa as puzzles . Critics for whom one has very great ...
... fact that even men of genius and m of taste are among the readers who are impos upon nowadays by poetry and prose that do not tou the heart at all and that scarcely touch the mind , sa as puzzles . Critics for whom one has very great ...
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... fact , there is a good deal to be said for the attitude of the politicians to the wits . The spirit of comedy spares neither enemy nor friend , and , indeed , owes no fealty to any party but the party of reason . you can imagine a ...
... fact , there is a good deal to be said for the attitude of the politicians to the wits . The spirit of comedy spares neither enemy nor friend , and , indeed , owes no fealty to any party but the party of reason . you can imagine a ...
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... fact that they nev know what mischief he may be ' up to ' next . Thus , find Dean Swift a sound Tory in politics , but an extre pacificist in comedy . Gilbert , I suppose , was as orthod a Conservative , but he could not indulge his ...
... fact that they nev know what mischief he may be ' up to ' next . Thus , find Dean Swift a sound Tory in politics , but an extre pacificist in comedy . Gilbert , I suppose , was as orthod a Conservative , but he could not indulge his ...
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... fact that the reading public is now largely a public of women , and on the supposed fact that women , though often wits , are seldom humorists . Women , they say , do not like Rabelais or Falstaff or ' Tristram Shandy ' or the ' Pick ...
... fact that the reading public is now largely a public of women , and on the supposed fact that women , though often wits , are seldom humorists . Women , they say , do not like Rabelais or Falstaff or ' Tristram Shandy ' or the ' Pick ...
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