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... humour and good humour , and perhaps ( in later years ) , among the wrinkles , of sadness and weariness . A 29 SCOTT AND CARLYLE.
... humour and good humour , and perhaps ( in later years ) , among the wrinkles , of sadness and weariness . A 29 SCOTT AND CARLYLE.
Page 32
... humour in him over which he had no control . His demon was - as many demons are a conflict of unharmonized impulses . Like Byron , he was at war with himself , a passionate believer with no creed ; censorious in his judgments , utterly ...
... humour in him over which he had no control . His demon was - as many demons are a conflict of unharmonized impulses . Like Byron , he was at war with himself , a passionate believer with no creed ; censorious in his judgments , utterly ...
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... humour , if not so boisterous as Dunbar's , is finer , slyer , more Chaucerian and more Scottish . In Henryson , then , we have a Scottish poet of the Dark Ages before Knox enlightened us , artistic , moral , religious , who well ...
... humour , if not so boisterous as Dunbar's , is finer , slyer , more Chaucerian and more Scottish . In Henryson , then , we have a Scottish poet of the Dark Ages before Knox enlightened us , artistic , moral , religious , who well ...
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PREFACE TO A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE | 19 |
SCOTT AND CARLYLE THE SUBSTANCE OF | 27 |
A NOTE UPON THE Samson Agonistes OF JOHN | 55 |
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