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Page v
... reader to over- look the direct appeals to his memory and attention , which may be permissible to one reading aloud to a friendly audience , although less pardonable in the for- mality of print . In preparing this book for the press I ...
... reader to over- look the direct appeals to his memory and attention , which may be permissible to one reading aloud to a friendly audience , although less pardonable in the for- mality of print . In preparing this book for the press I ...
Page vi
... readers , affirms , in her admira- ble " Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and the Beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- tury " ( i . 7 and 8 ) , that " every singer is a new miracle— created if nothing else is created ...
... readers , affirms , in her admira- ble " Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and the Beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- tury " ( i . 7 and 8 ) , that " every singer is a new miracle— created if nothing else is created ...
Page ix
... readers . At any rate , a genius , in the future as in the past and the present , is bound by the necessity of building on the foundations that society is laying every day . Every apparently insignificant action of ours con- tributes ...
... readers . At any rate , a genius , in the future as in the past and the present , is bound by the necessity of building on the foundations that society is laying every day . Every apparently insignificant action of ours con- tributes ...
Page xi
... Readers .- " The Hind and the Panther . " - " Mac Flecknoe . " - Dryden's Modification of the Poetical Diction . IV . The New Spirit Demanding New Translations of Classics . - Chapman and Pope . V. Dryden's Versions of Chaucer . - His ...
... Readers .- " The Hind and the Panther . " - " Mac Flecknoe . " - Dryden's Modification of the Poetical Diction . IV . The New Spirit Demanding New Translations of Classics . - Chapman and Pope . V. Dryden's Versions of Chaucer . - His ...
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... reading public is exceedingly catholic ; but if at the present time real plays were written which interested us , our feelings would be enlisted in behalf of any older dramatist who seemed to support our theory of how plays should be ...
... reading public is exceedingly catholic ; but if at the present time real plays were written which interested us , our feelings would be enlisted in behalf of any older dramatist who seemed to support our theory of how plays should be ...
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