Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 8
... scarcely suppose that Mr. Croker has never read that passage ; and yet we can scarcely suppose that any person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord ...
... scarcely suppose that Mr. Croker has never read that passage ; and yet we can scarcely suppose that any person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord ...
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... scarcely known to this generation ? It is not likely that a person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this book with any wish to find blemishes in it . We ...
... scarcely known to this generation ? It is not likely that a person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this book with any wish to find blemishes in it . We ...
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... scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which ...
... scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which ...
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... scarcely of themselves have sufficed to make him conspicuous ; but because he was a dunce , a parasite , and a coxcomb , they have made him immortal . Those parts of his book which , considered abs- tractedly , are most utterly ...
... scarcely of themselves have sufficed to make him conspicuous ; but because he was a dunce , a parasite , and a coxcomb , they have made him immortal . Those parts of his book which , considered abs- tractedly , are most utterly ...
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... scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies . It would be easier to find a person who would avow actions like those of ...
... scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies . It would be easier to find a person who would avow actions like those of ...
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