Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 13
... beauty is either awk- wardly disguised or arbitrarily omitted . ' Another critic , who cites this passage from Steevens , pursues the hypothesis as follows : In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become a ...
... beauty is either awk- wardly disguised or arbitrarily omitted . ' Another critic , who cites this passage from Steevens , pursues the hypothesis as follows : In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become a ...
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... beauty in the Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his pedantry ? Far from it . He attacked Milton with no less fervor ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand ...
... beauty in the Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his pedantry ? Far from it . He attacked Milton with no less fervor ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand ...
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... beauty of what little he had read was too much for all his pedan- try , and startled him exceedingly ; for ever afterwards he speaks of Shakspeare as one who , with a little aid from Grecian sources , really had something great and ...
... beauty of what little he had read was too much for all his pedan- try , and startled him exceedingly ; for ever afterwards he speaks of Shakspeare as one who , with a little aid from Grecian sources , really had something great and ...
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... beauty as fascinating an object as any woman of any station . Hence we may in part account for the great event of Shakspeare's early manhood , his premature marriage . It has always been known , or at least traditionally received for a ...
... beauty as fascinating an object as any woman of any station . Hence we may in part account for the great event of Shakspeare's early manhood , his premature marriage . It has always been known , or at least traditionally received for a ...
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... beauty and tropical luxuriance of life . For instance , - a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female char- acter had not been seen as in a dream before Shak- speare ...
... beauty and tropical luxuriance of life . For instance , - a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female char- acter had not been seen as in a dream before Shak- speare ...
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