Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... fact , combined with some shadow of a tradi- tion , Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d . There is doubtless , on the one hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times ...
... fact , combined with some shadow of a tradi- tion , Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d . There is doubtless , on the one hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times ...
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... fact with what we now call the 3d of May , so that , whether the child was to be carried abroad , or the clergyman to be summoned , no hindrance would arise from the weather . One only argument has sometimes struck us for sup- posing ...
... fact with what we now call the 3d of May , so that , whether the child was to be carried abroad , or the clergyman to be summoned , no hindrance would arise from the weather . One only argument has sometimes struck us for sup- posing ...
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... fact , that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as ... facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to the ...
... fact , that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as ... facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to the ...
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... fact of his noticing him at all proves his enormous popu- larity ; for upon system he noticed those only who tuled the public taste . The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this , that he com- ments in a ...
... fact of his noticing him at all proves his enormous popu- larity ; for upon system he noticed those only who tuled the public taste . The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this , that he com- ments in a ...
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... fact , he had evidently read little beyond the list of names in Shakspeare ; yet there is proof enough that the irresistible beauty of what little he had read was too much for all his pedan- try , and startled him exceedingly ; for ever ...
... fact , he had evidently read little beyond the list of names in Shakspeare ; yet there is proof enough that the irresistible beauty of what little he had read was too much for all his pedan- try , and startled him exceedingly ; for ever ...
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