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Page 167
... of time and nationality ; and that it is therefore in the strictest sense a classic , which is by definition a book at once universal and immortal . A MISTAKEN VIEW OF WORDSWORTH MR . HARPER'S Life of DON QUIXOTE 167.
... of time and nationality ; and that it is therefore in the strictest sense a classic , which is by definition a book at once universal and immortal . A MISTAKEN VIEW OF WORDSWORTH MR . HARPER'S Life of DON QUIXOTE 167.
Page 168
... Harper has had great advantages . He has been allowed by the poet's grandson not only to see but to publish much ... Harper . Two vols . Murray , 1916. This article , or most of it , originally appeared as a review of Professor Harper's ...
... Harper has had great advantages . He has been allowed by the poet's grandson not only to see but to publish much ... Harper . Two vols . Murray , 1916. This article , or most of it , originally appeared as a review of Professor Harper's ...
Page 169
... Harper's book . For the rest it tells the familiar story with greater detail and accuracy than it has ever been told before . It 1 See Appendix A at the end of this essay . is much the best Life of Wordsworth in existence . A MISTAKEN ...
... Harper's book . For the rest it tells the familiar story with greater detail and accuracy than it has ever been told before . It 1 See Appendix A at the end of this essay . is much the best Life of Wordsworth in existence . A MISTAKEN ...
Page 170
... Harper has missed , partly by lack of sympathy and partly by lack of ability . He is in the first place a mediocre writer . His style lacks force and clearness as well as any kind of distinction . It is respectable but never anything ...
... Harper has missed , partly by lack of sympathy and partly by lack of ability . He is in the first place a mediocre writer . His style lacks force and clearness as well as any kind of distinction . It is respectable but never anything ...
Page 171
... Harper is for the performance of this difficult task is sufficiently seen by the fact that the two qualities in which he again and again declares Wordsworth to have been pre - eminent are consummate technical skill ' and versatility ...
... Harper is for the performance of this difficult task is sufficiently seen by the fact that the two qualities in which he again and again declares Wordsworth to have been pre - eminent are consummate technical skill ' and versatility ...
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