 Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead — who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2811918Full view - About this book
 | Lytton Strachey - Celebrities - 1918 - 412 pages
...of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom...as familiar as the cortege of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism. One is tempted to suppose, of some of them, that they... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - Celebrities - 1918 - 392 pages
...of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom...as familiar as the cortege of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism. One is tempted to suppose, of some of them, that they... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - Literature - 1918 - 468 pages
...of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes with which it is our custom...lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design? . . . "To preserve, for instance, a becoming brevity — a brevity which excludes everything that is... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - Great Britain - 1918 - 392 pages
...of letters ; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead—who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - English fiction - 1920 - 358 pages
...England : ... we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom...lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design ? . . . What I have aimed at in this book is to lay bare 167 the facts of some cases, as I understand... | |
 | Joseph Collins - Italian literature - 1920 - 334 pages
...sometimes even amused by reading Mr. Maugham's new book. CHAPTER IX THE LITERARY MAUSOLEUM OF SAMUEL BUTLER "Those two fat volumes with which it is our custom...ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their love of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" — Lytton... | |
 | Joseph Collins - Italian literature - 1920 - 340 pages
...sometimes even amused by reading Mr. Maugham's new book. CHAPTER IX THE LITERARY MAUSOLEUM OF SAMUEL BUTLER "Those two fat volumes with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead—who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 228 pages
...the short but valuable Preface the author speaks, almost bitterly, of too many modern biographies : Those two fat volumes with which it is our custom...as familiar as the cortege of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism. One is tempted to suppose of some of them that they... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1924 - 228 pages
...the short but valuable Preface the author speaks, almost bitterly, of too many modern biographies : Those two fat volumes with which it is our custom...detachment, of design ? They are as familiar as the cortige of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism. One is tempted to suppose... | |
 | Joseph Collins - Autobiography - 1925 - 356 pages
...month, it seems paradoxical that biography should continue to be what Mr. Lytton Strachey says it is: "Two fat volumes with which it is our custom to commemorate the day — who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slip-shod style,... | |
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