The Stream of English Biography: Readings in Representative Biographies, with Historical and Critical IntroductionCentury Company, 1930 - 360 Seiten |
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... literature because the life of Gray is largely told through letters . There were , as we have seen , letters in ... literature , Walpole , Lady Mary Wortley Montague , Fanny Burney ( Madame d'Arblay ) , and Cowper , belong to this ...
... literature because the life of Gray is largely told through letters . There were , as we have seen , letters in ... literature , Walpole , Lady Mary Wortley Montague , Fanny Burney ( Madame d'Arblay ) , and Cowper , belong to this ...
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... literature . From them might be assembled pages of luminous com- ment on the theory and practice of biography . Besides Macaulay and Carlyle there were other reviewers - Southey , Scott , Francis Jef- frey and , later , Gladstone - who ...
... literature . From them might be assembled pages of luminous com- ment on the theory and practice of biography . Besides Macaulay and Carlyle there were other reviewers - Southey , Scott , Francis Jef- frey and , later , Gladstone - who ...
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... Literature is an art and so is history . And life - writing , as this sketch of its prog- ress has shown , is both history and literature . Whenever philosophy invades the realm of literature , it is disastrous to pure literature ; for ...
... Literature is an art and so is history . And life - writing , as this sketch of its prog- ress has shown , is both history and literature . Whenever philosophy invades the realm of literature , it is disastrous to pure literature ; for ...
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