English WitsLeonard Russell Hutchinson, 1940 - 349 pages Essays by several authors on Pope, Johnson, Wilde, Whistler, Smith, Hook, Lamb, Sheridan, Wilkes, Labouchere, Beerbohm, Shaw, "Saki", and Mitford. |
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Page 82
... critic's paper . " I had no intention whatever of illustrating Mr. Wilkie Collins's novel - it so happens , indeed ... critic of the " Saturday Review " and other cultured organs , is perhaps the critic - type of the stupide dix ...
... critic's paper . " I had no intention whatever of illustrating Mr. Wilkie Collins's novel - it so happens , indeed ... critic of the " Saturday Review " and other cultured organs , is perhaps the critic - type of the stupide dix ...
Page 86
... critic , and it is mournful to think how much more Whistler might have made of Mr. Bayliss , cyclist and Diocesan Councilman , had he so chosen . The fact is , and it in no way detracts from the rare bouquet of his literary work to face ...
... critic , and it is mournful to think how much more Whistler might have made of Mr. Bayliss , cyclist and Diocesan Councilman , had he so chosen . The fact is , and it in no way detracts from the rare bouquet of his literary work to face ...
Page 87
... critic , Mr. Quilter , praises highly an oil portrait of Ruskin by Herkomer . With a yell of delight , Whistler at once leaps on him in the " World " : ( " ' Ne pas confondre intelligence avec gendarmes ' — but surely , my dear Atlas ...
... critic , Mr. Quilter , praises highly an oil portrait of Ruskin by Herkomer . With a yell of delight , Whistler at once leaps on him in the " World " : ( " ' Ne pas confondre intelligence avec gendarmes ' — but surely , my dear Atlas ...
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