EssaysMacmillan, 1896 - 312 էջ |
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Էջ vii
... figures whose personality or writings have seemed to me to possess some subtle , evasive charm , or delicate originality of purpose or view . Mystery , inex- plicable reticence , haughty austerity , have a fascination in life and ...
... figures whose personality or writings have seemed to me to possess some subtle , evasive charm , or delicate originality of purpose or view . Mystery , inex- plicable reticence , haughty austerity , have a fascination in life and ...
Էջ viii
... figures in my narrow gallery of portraits . But I will say that they were most of them persons about whom hung an undefined promise of greater strength than ever issued in performance . The causes of their comparative failure are ...
... figures in my narrow gallery of portraits . But I will say that they were most of them persons about whom hung an undefined promise of greater strength than ever issued in performance . The causes of their comparative failure are ...
Էջ 8
... figures ( both were very small men ) , with their fresh complexions , set off by tiny mustachios and imperials such as churchmen then wore , pacing up and down under the high elms of the garden , and arguing to the verge of exhaustion ...
... figures ( both were very small men ) , with their fresh complexions , set off by tiny mustachios and imperials such as churchmen then wore , pacing up and down under the high elms of the garden , and arguing to the verge of exhaustion ...
Էջ 9
... figure of Ben Jonson , the presiding genius of the place , drinking his huge potations of canary , and warming out of his native melancholy into wit and eloquence , merg- ing at last into angry self - laudation , and then into drunken ...
... figure of Ben Jonson , the presiding genius of the place , drinking his huge potations of canary , and warming out of his native melancholy into wit and eloquence , merg- ing at last into angry self - laudation , and then into drunken ...
Էջ 17
... figure that Eton's sons may well be glad to connect with her single street , her gliding waters and her immemorial groves ; though as yet the reverence of antiquity sate lightly upon B her , though she was not yet in the forefront John ...
... figure that Eton's sons may well be glad to connect with her single street , her gliding waters and her immemorial groves ; though as yet the reverence of antiquity sate lightly upon B her , though she was not yet in the forefront John ...
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