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... sonnets he claimed ; and there is an undoubted difficulty in understanding how a man who cared about Lucrece and Venus and Adonis , could be negligent about Hamlet and Othello . Yet Shake- speare was unquestionably indifferent about the ...
... sonnets he claimed ; and there is an undoubted difficulty in understanding how a man who cared about Lucrece and Venus and Adonis , could be negligent about Hamlet and Othello . Yet Shake- speare was unquestionably indifferent about the ...
Page 94
... sonnets " ? Archimedes is reported to have said , boasting of the power of the lever , " Give me a spot to stand on , and I will move the world . " So certain critics exclaim , " Grant Shakespeare wrote the sonnets , and we will prove ...
... sonnets " ? Archimedes is reported to have said , boasting of the power of the lever , " Give me a spot to stand on , and I will move the world . " So certain critics exclaim , " Grant Shakespeare wrote the sonnets , and we will prove ...
Page 95
... sonnets ; we hope to do so at some future time ; but we will briefly state our belief , that many of the phases of Bacon's early life might be traced in` them . Bacon owns to having written one sonnet . In The Apology of Sir Frances ...
... sonnets ; we hope to do so at some future time ; but we will briefly state our belief , that many of the phases of Bacon's early life might be traced in` them . Bacon owns to having written one sonnet . In The Apology of Sir Frances ...
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... Sonnets , the editor proceeds : - " As to his ( Shakespeare's ) general capacity , manifested by his conversation with other great minds , Fuller bears personal testimony . ' Many were the Wit Combats , ' says he , ' between Shakespeare ...
... Sonnets , the editor proceeds : - " As to his ( Shakespeare's ) general capacity , manifested by his conversation with other great minds , Fuller bears personal testimony . ' Many were the Wit Combats , ' says he , ' between Shakespeare ...
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... sonnet , and that learned men would as little have prided them- selves upon writing one , as upon uttering a bon mot - that the first collection of plays that as- sumed anything like the appearance of a literary work was Ben Jonson's ...
... sonnet , and that learned men would as little have prided them- selves upon writing one , as upon uttering a bon mot - that the first collection of plays that as- sumed anything like the appearance of a literary work was Ben Jonson's ...
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