Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... circumstances , we have reason to feel no little perplexity in finding the mate- rials for a life of this transcendent writer so meagre and so few ; and amongst them the larger part of doubtful authority . All the energy of curiosity di ...
... circumstances , we have reason to feel no little perplexity in finding the mate- rials for a life of this transcendent writer so meagre and so few ; and amongst them the larger part of doubtful authority . All the energy of curiosity di ...
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... circumstances . Ten or fifteen times as much consideration went to the purchase of one great folio like Shakspeare , as would attend the purchase of a little volume like Waller or Donne . Without reviews , or newspapers , or adver ...
... circumstances . Ten or fifteen times as much consideration went to the purchase of one great folio like Shakspeare , as would attend the purchase of a little volume like Waller or Donne . Without reviews , or newspapers , or adver ...
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... circumstances of the war were even more important than the general fact . First of all , the very mansion founded by Shak- speare became the military head - quarters for the queen , in 1644 , when marching from the eastern coast of ...
... circumstances of the war were even more important than the general fact . First of all , the very mansion founded by Shak- speare became the military head - quarters for the queen , in 1644 , when marching from the eastern coast of ...
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... circumstances of an embar- rassed man . Finally , the fact of his being indebted to Robert Sadler , a baker , in the sum of five pounds , and his being under the necessity of bringing a friend as security for the payment , proves ...
... circumstances of an embar- rassed man . Finally , the fact of his being indebted to Robert Sadler , a baker , in the sum of five pounds , and his being under the necessity of bringing a friend as security for the payment , proves ...
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... circumstances which favor the notion of a humble station and humble connections ; others , with equal for- getfulness of true dignity , plead with the intemperance and partiality of a legal advocate for the pretensions of Shakspeare to ...
... circumstances which favor the notion of a humble station and humble connections ; others , with equal for- getfulness of true dignity , plead with the intemperance and partiality of a legal advocate for the pretensions of Shakspeare to ...
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