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Professor Mackail says βwanβ, and the age of Burne β Jones and Morris is at once evoked.
The Common Reader 1925
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The modern botanical critic of Vergil should, as Mackail has said, study the flora of Campania not of Lombardy.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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A rival clique of poets, led by Mackail and Beeching, put forward a little pamphlet of their own, full of what was really exquisite verse of the Burne-Jones, Morris, Swinburne type.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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[Footnote 6: Carcopino, Virgile et les origines d'Ostie.] [Footnote 7: Mackail, Journal of Roman Studies, 1915.] [Footnote 8: Warde Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People.p. 408.] [Footnote 9: Sergeaunt, Trees, Shrubs, and Plants of Virgil.]
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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Mackail and A.C. Bradley and Rhys, poets like Newbolt and Drinkwater and
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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And our critical experience bears this out, since even Professor Mackail with all his literary skill and insight has failed to make his version of the _Aeneid_ more than a very valuable aid to the student of the original.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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A rival clique of poets, led by Mackail and Beeching, put forward a little pamphlet of their own, full of what was really exquisite verse of the Burne-Jones, Morris, Swinburne type.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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In the end, Rodd carried off with him the following lyric -- a work in regard to which I felt no pride of parentage either then or now, and only quote because it was made the occasion for a very neat parody by Mackail.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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"Love is Enough," in the form of a fifteenth-century morality play, and treating a subject from the "Mabinogion," appeared in 1873, Mackail praises its delicate mechanism in the use of "receding planes of action"
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Mackail also describes a satirical interlude, entitled "The Tables Turned, or Nupkins Awakened," which was acted thrice at Farringden Road in the autumn of 1887 -- a
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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