Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... fellow - townsmen , and from his rank of first magistrate , we may presume that , about the year 1568 , he had placed himself at the head of the Stratford community . Afterwards he continued for some years to 44 SHAKSPEARE .
... fellow - townsmen , and from his rank of first magistrate , we may presume that , about the year 1568 , he had placed himself at the head of the Stratford community . Afterwards he continued for some years to 44 SHAKSPEARE .
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Thomas De Quincey. Stratford community . Afterwards he continued for some years to descend from this altitude ; and the question is , at what point this gradual degradation may be supposed to have settled . Now we shall avow it as our ...
Thomas De Quincey. Stratford community . Afterwards he continued for some years to descend from this altitude ; and the question is , at what point this gradual degradation may be supposed to have settled . Now we shall avow it as our ...
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... continued to sell throughout the century . Besides , in arguing the ease of a dramatic poet , we must bear in mind , that although readers of learned books might be diffused over the face of the land , and readers of poetry would be ...
... continued to sell throughout the century . Besides , in arguing the ease of a dramatic poet , we must bear in mind , that although readers of learned books might be diffused over the face of the land , and readers of poetry would be ...
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... continued the same , but because the very objects to be taken into computation are so inde- terminate , and vary so much , not only as regards century and century , kingdom and kingdom , but also , even in the same cen tury and the same ...
... continued the same , but because the very objects to be taken into computation are so inde- terminate , and vary so much , not only as regards century and century , kingdom and kingdom , but also , even in the same cen tury and the same ...
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... continued to conceal vipers beneath his flowers ; or rather , speaking proportionately to the case , he continued to sheath amongst the gleaming but innocuous lightnings of his departing splendors , the thunderbolts which blasted for ...
... continued to conceal vipers beneath his flowers ; or rather , speaking proportionately to the case , he continued to sheath amongst the gleaming but innocuous lightnings of his departing splendors , the thunderbolts which blasted for ...
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