Word: grote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divisionals are Lowelling along the Homer Wace. Lamarck boards the Hollow Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens...
Robin's life and friends at the University, his familyand their friends at Grote and in London are pictured interestingly vivdly. Robin's relations with his mother, her afair with the gret Kuhlmann, and as a background, the whole fabrie of English social life before the cataclysm of 1914 are charmingly depicted. Even Mr. Benson's rather slip-shop style seems less obtrusive as the author approaches that great crisis when the destinyof nations trembled in the balance...