Portraits And Sketches
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COLLECTED ESSAYS OF EDMUND GO SE PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES OTHER WORKS BY MR. EDMUND GOSSE Northern Studies. 1879. Lift of Gray. 1882. Seventeenth-Century Studies. 1883. Life of Congrevc. 1888. A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature. 1889. Life of Philip Henry Gosse, FM. S. 1890. Gossip in a Library. 1891. The Secret of Narcisse a Romance. 1892. Questions at Issue. 1893. Critical Kit-Kats. 1896. A Short History of Modern English Literature. 1897, Life and Letters of John Donne. 1899. Hypolympia. 1901. Life of Jeremy Taylor. 1904. French Profiles. 1904, Life of Sir Thomas Browne. 1905, Father and Son. 1907. Life of Ibsen. 1908. Two Visits to Denmark. 1911. Collected Poems. 1911. Portraits and Sketches. 1912. Inter Anna. 1916. Lf 0 of Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1917. T ira Fracft Moralists. 1918. Stftfitf Diversions of a Man of Letters, 1920. B00 s on the Table. 1921. Aspects and Impressions. 1922. Mow 00 5 on the Table. 1923. PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES BY K DM UN I GOSSK, C. H. WILLIAM HK1NKMANN LTD. First published Oct. 1912 New Impressions, Nov. 1912, Feb. 1913, Oct. 1924 fKINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BILLING AND SONS, LTD,, GOILDFORD AND ESHER TO H. OF C. THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED PREFACE THESE short studies of authors whom I have known more or less intimately, and have observed with curiosity and admiration, base whatever value they may possess on their independence. They are imperfect, perhaps erroneous, but they are not second-hand. Whether they are the result of a few flashing glimpses, or of the patient scrutiny of many years, in either case they are my own. I hope that some of them, at least, may be found to possess the interest which attaches to even a rude pencil sketch of a famous person, drawn faithfully from the life. The persons dealt with are of widely differing importance, and it is probable that posterity will intensify the distinction between them. Some names are here included which history may neglect altogether here are others which we
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