Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption , that no parents , living in a simple community , tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty , and in an age still clinging reverentially ...
... doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption , that no parents , living in a simple community , tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty , and in an age still clinging reverentially ...
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... 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. Nahum Tate ...
... 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. Nahum Tate ...
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... doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not pro- fessing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have ...
... doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not pro- fessing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have ...
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... doubt profoundly unlearned in Shakspeare's lan- guage , and thoroughly unable to do him justice , ( and this we might well assume , since his great rival , Pope , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably ...
... doubt profoundly unlearned in Shakspeare's lan- guage , and thoroughly unable to do him justice , ( and this we might well assume , since his great rival , Pope , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably ...
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... the very time , and accompanied with friendly sym- pathy , every motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare . Now he , in words which leave no room for doubt , exclaims , Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were 20 SHAKSPEARE .
... the very time , and accompanied with friendly sym- pathy , every motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare . Now he , in words which leave no room for doubt , exclaims , Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were 20 SHAKSPEARE .
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