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Page 167
... brought him into gen- eral currency . Though his influence on the Romantic movement was considerable - Sainte - Beuve , writing in the forties , considered it equal to Byron's - it re- mained largely unacknowledged , as his books were ...
... brought him into gen- eral currency . Though his influence on the Romantic movement was considerable - Sainte - Beuve , writing in the forties , considered it equal to Byron's - it re- mained largely unacknowledged , as his books were ...
Page 185
... brought this about - and he was more or less in pain all his life . There was a manic - depressive ele- ment - as appears from his own explanation of them -in the humorous stories and readings which his Cabinet sometimes found so ...
... brought this about - and he was more or less in pain all his life . There was a manic - depressive ele- ment - as appears from his own explanation of them -in the humorous stories and readings which his Cabinet sometimes found so ...
Page 224
... brought out by the owlish lenses , and which were usually more lively than the rest of his face , his appearance was perennially youthful , as of a schoolboy who was stumping his elders or innocently waiting for someone to pick up one ...
... brought out by the owlish lenses , and which were usually more lively than the rest of his face , his appearance was perennially youthful , as of a schoolboy who was stumping his elders or innocently waiting for someone to pick up one ...
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