Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... accident , or governed merely by reason of convenience . And , on the whole , it is as well perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory ...
... accident , or governed merely by reason of convenience . And , on the whole , it is as well perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory ...
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... , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient in the appropriate knowledge , } - yet , that of course he had a vague popular knowl- -- edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident 16 SHAKSPEARE .
... , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient in the appropriate knowledge , } - yet , that of course he had a vague popular knowl- -- edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident 16 SHAKSPEARE .
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Thomas De Quincey. edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident only led us into a discovery of our mistake . Twice or thrice we had observed , that if Shakspeare were quoted , that paper turned out not to be Addison's ; and at ...
Thomas De Quincey. edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident only led us into a discovery of our mistake . Twice or thrice we had observed , that if Shakspeare were quoted , that paper turned out not to be Addison's ; and at ...
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... central axis , in which all the radii from the four angles of England proper meet and intersect . Mere accident , therefore , of local position , much more when united with that avowed inveteracy of malignant feeling , 28 SHAKSPEARE .
... central axis , in which all the radii from the four angles of England proper meet and intersect . Mere accident , therefore , of local position , much more when united with that avowed inveteracy of malignant feeling , 28 SHAKSPEARE .
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... the rising sun ( the varolaι 21010 , ) must in every age draw perennial streams of intellectual life , we feel that the little accidents of birth and social condition are so unspeakably below the grandeur of the theme , SHAKSPEARE . 43.
... the rising sun ( the varolaι 21010 , ) must in every age draw perennial streams of intellectual life , we feel that the little accidents of birth and social condition are so unspeakably below the grandeur of the theme , SHAKSPEARE . 43.
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