Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 14
... allowed to doubt , was then utter- ing a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr ...
... allowed to doubt , was then utter- ing a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr ...
Page 24
... allowed a choice ; the great majority of an audience even now cannot be expected to carry the real Shakspeare in their mind , so as to pursue a comparison between that and the alteration . Their comparisons must be exclusively amongst ...
... allowed a choice ; the great majority of an audience even now cannot be expected to carry the real Shakspeare in their mind , so as to pursue a comparison between that and the alteration . Their comparisons must be exclusively amongst ...
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... allowed to entrench , by means of loans or mortgages , upon capital funds . The stress upon the family finan- ces was perhaps at times severe ; and that it was borne at all , must be imputed to the large and even splendid portion whic ...
... allowed to entrench , by means of loans or mortgages , upon capital funds . The stress upon the family finan- ces was perhaps at times severe ; and that it was borne at all , must be imputed to the large and even splendid portion whic ...
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... allows the total fortune of Mary Arden to have been £ 110 13s . 4d . , is sure that the value of Asbies could not have been more than one hundred pounds . But why ? Because , says he , the ' average ' rent of land at that time was no ...
... allows the total fortune of Mary Arden to have been £ 110 13s . 4d . , is sure that the value of Asbies could not have been more than one hundred pounds . But why ? Because , says he , the ' average ' rent of land at that time was no ...
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... allow . Through this earliest section of his life he would undoubtedly rank as a gentleman's son , possibly as the leader of his class , in Stratford . But what rank he held through the next ten years , or , more generally , what was ...
... allow . Through this earliest section of his life he would undoubtedly rank as a gentleman's son , possibly as the leader of his class , in Stratford . But what rank he held through the next ten years , or , more generally , what was ...
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