Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Thomas De Quincey . 9 101 . 167 227 263 BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS . SHAKSPEARE.1 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , the protagonist on. SHAASPEARE , POPE • CHARLES LAMB ,. GOETHE , SCHILLER .. CONTENTS .
Thomas De Quincey . 9 101 . 167 227 263 BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS . SHAKSPEARE.1 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , the protagonist on. SHAASPEARE , POPE • CHARLES LAMB ,. GOETHE , SCHILLER .. CONTENTS .
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... , let us not be supposed to believe the lying legend of Savage ; he was doubtless no son of Lady Macclesfield's , but an impostor , who would not be sent to the tread - mill . CHARLES LAMB . Ir sounds paradoxical , but is not 166 NOTES .
... , let us not be supposed to believe the lying legend of Savage ; he was doubtless no son of Lady Macclesfield's , but an impostor , who would not be sent to the tread - mill . CHARLES LAMB . Ir sounds paradoxical , but is not 166 NOTES .
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... , such as rarely reflect themselves in the mirror of the ordinary understanding . It seems little to be perceived , how much the great scriptural idea of the worldly and the unworldly is found to emerge [ 167 ] CHARLES LAMB,
... , such as rarely reflect themselves in the mirror of the ordinary understanding . It seems little to be perceived , how much the great scriptural idea of the worldly and the unworldly is found to emerge [ 167 ] CHARLES LAMB,
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... Lamb , if any ever was , is amongst the class here contemplated ; he , if ever any has , ranks amongst writers whose works are destined to be for ever unpopu- lar , and yet for ever interesting ; interesting , moreover , by means of ...
... Lamb , if any ever was , is amongst the class here contemplated ; he , if ever any has , ranks amongst writers whose works are destined to be for ever unpopu- lar , and yet for ever interesting ; interesting , moreover , by means of ...
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... Lamb , and not merely in his Elia , the character of the writer cooperates in an undercurrent to the effect of the thing written To understand in the fullest sense either the gayety or the tenderness of a particular passage , you 15 ...
... Lamb , and not merely in his Elia , the character of the writer cooperates in an undercurrent to the effect of the thing written To understand in the fullest sense either the gayety or the tenderness of a particular passage , you 15 ...
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