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... wrote to thank Gray for sending him some notes on the history of English poetry . The letter ended in a tribute to Gray's own work expressed in the rotund strain of compliment characteristic of his period . I cannot take my leave [ he ...
... wrote to thank Gray for sending him some notes on the history of English poetry . The letter ended in a tribute to Gray's own work expressed in the rotund strain of compliment characteristic of his period . I cannot take my leave [ he ...
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... wrote that ' Dante was extravagant , absurd , disgusting , in short a Methodist parson in Bedlam'2 or Sir Richard Clayton attributed Dante's ' absurd and burlesque images ' to a ' want of correct taste ' , 3 they simply meant that the ...
... wrote that ' Dante was extravagant , absurd , disgusting , in short a Methodist parson in Bedlam'2 or Sir Richard Clayton attributed Dante's ' absurd and burlesque images ' to a ' want of correct taste ' , 3 they simply meant that the ...
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... wrote : ' It made me really very dismal to leave Göttingen : people were very good to me and seemed very sorry that I was going . One gets up a lot of affection for a place where one has been for a year . I felt too that my time there ...
... wrote : ' It made me really very dismal to leave Göttingen : people were very good to me and seemed very sorry that I was going . One gets up a lot of affection for a place where one has been for a year . I felt too that my time there ...
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LIST OF FELLOWS | 9 |
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 14 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 14 |
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