Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having brought together so widely scattered a collection , - a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely ...
... already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having brought together so widely scattered a collection , - a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely ...
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... already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think such an acquaintance any ways essential to the character of an elegant ...
... already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think such an acquaintance any ways essential to the character of an elegant ...
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... already in his day a little obsolete . ' Here now we have wilful , deliberate falsehood . Obsolete , in Dry- den's meaning , does not imply that he was so with regard to his popularity , ( the question then at issue , ) but with regard ...
... already in his day a little obsolete . ' Here now we have wilful , deliberate falsehood . Obsolete , in Dry- den's meaning , does not imply that he was so with regard to his popularity , ( the question then at issue , ) but with regard ...
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... already been treated unfairly , not with regard to Shakspeare only , but to Milton , as well as many others . The truth is , we have not facts enough to guide us ; for the number of editions often tells nothing accurately as to the ...
... already been treated unfairly , not with regard to Shakspeare only , but to Milton , as well as many others . The truth is , we have not facts enough to guide us ; for the number of editions often tells nothing accurately as to the ...
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... Already , in the time of James I. , the growing importance of the gentry , and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions , had begun to express itself at Oxford , and still more so at Cambridge . Academic persons ...
... Already , in the time of James I. , the growing importance of the gentry , and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions , had begun to express itself at Oxford , and still more so at Cambridge . Academic persons ...
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