Fisher's Ghost, and Other EssaysF.W. Cheshire, 1950 - 208 pages |
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Page 87
... greatest work , Faust , on German soil , a legend rooted in the sixteenth century and con- nected directly with the Reformation . In that time the Mother Country of the Reformation became to Englishmen famous as the homeland of ...
... greatest work , Faust , on German soil , a legend rooted in the sixteenth century and con- nected directly with the Reformation . In that time the Mother Country of the Reformation became to Englishmen famous as the homeland of ...
Page 97
... greatest virtue of the mind is to know God . " A sense of tragic contrast is immediately given to the play by the murder of the Dutch states- men , the De Witt brothers , by the mob outside ( a scene familiar to us from Dumas ) . Soon ...
... greatest virtue of the mind is to know God . " A sense of tragic contrast is immediately given to the play by the murder of the Dutch states- men , the De Witt brothers , by the mob outside ( a scene familiar to us from Dumas ) . Soon ...
Page 126
... greatest son whom England " bore , shaped and made aware " , was essentially English : " Cry - God for Harry ! England ! and St. George ! " In name , Hamlet may be a Dane , Brutus a Roman , Romeo and Juliet and Portia Italian ; yet in ...
... greatest son whom England " bore , shaped and made aware " , was essentially English : " Cry - God for Harry ! England ! and St. George ! " In name , Hamlet may be a Dane , Brutus a Roman , Romeo and Juliet and Portia Italian ; yet in ...
Contents
FISHERS GHOSTTWO SIDELIGHTS | 1 |
THAT WORD AGAIN | 16 |
THE ESSENTIAL MURDOCH | 33 |
Copyright | |
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