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... thou- sand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this but for their igno- rance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted , and 26 EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR.
... thou- sand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this but for their igno- rance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted , and 26 EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR.
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... thou dost me wrong , ' he replied , ' Cæsar did never wrong but with just cause ; ' and such like , which were ridiculous . But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned ...
... thou dost me wrong , ' he replied , ' Cæsar did never wrong but with just cause ; ' and such like , which were ridiculous . But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned ...
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... prose , would not be ill employed ; but , as Bacon observes , with commentators , " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and dis- course upon the plain . " TO THE READER . This Figure , that thou here OF SHAKESPEARE . 29.
... prose , would not be ill employed ; but , as Bacon observes , with commentators , " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and dis- course upon the plain . " TO THE READER . This Figure , that thou here OF SHAKESPEARE . 29.
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... thou here seest put , It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature , to out - doo the life : O , could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse , as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then ...
... thou here seest put , It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature , to out - doo the life : O , could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse , as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then ...
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... thou didst our Lily out - shine , Or sporting Kyd , or Marlowe's mighty line . And though thou hadst small Latine , and lesse Greeke , From thence to honour thee , I would not seeke For names ; but call forth thund'ring Æschilus ...
... thou didst our Lily out - shine , Or sporting Kyd , or Marlowe's mighty line . And though thou hadst small Latine , and lesse Greeke , From thence to honour thee , I would not seeke For names ; but call forth thund'ring Æschilus ...
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