"Up until this point, as Strachey remarked in the preface, Victorian biographies had been ""as familiar as the cortège of the undertaker"", and wore the same air of ""slow, funereal barbarism."""
Awendǎɣ had harwa, sund awa isan Strachey dǎɣ santo, biographitan wi digrawnen aqalan ""terwe dǎɣ tax axlasan nufasan-ən tamatant"" əd ilsan iyandǎɣ adu ən "talafen hin əlanen əd tihay".