The Quarterly Review, Volume 289William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1951 - English literature |
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It is difficult to see why a writer who deals in the most precise detail with the paraphernalia of the modern world should be refused the label , while writers who go back to the earliest of all things , which is chaos , or even those ...
It is difficult to see why a writer who deals in the most precise detail with the paraphernalia of the modern world should be refused the label , while writers who go back to the earliest of all things , which is chaos , or even those ...
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His reputation as a writer and thinker was widely acknowledged ; it led him to suppose that he was entitled to such criticism . And he needed it more than most , especially as the years advanced , to penetrate the miasma of gossip ...
His reputation as a writer and thinker was widely acknowledged ; it led him to suppose that he was entitled to such criticism . And he needed it more than most , especially as the years advanced , to penetrate the miasma of gossip ...
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... a healthy reaction against the turgid , chaotically - subjective school of such writers as Joyce and D. H. Lawrence . ... of chastising Dr Johnson for writing , as he confessed , ' dilatorily , ' ' hastily , ' and ' unwillingly ' !
... a healthy reaction against the turgid , chaotically - subjective school of such writers as Joyce and D. H. Lawrence . ... of chastising Dr Johnson for writing , as he confessed , ' dilatorily , ' ' hastily , ' and ' unwillingly ' !
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