Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... hands of your house , and , so far as regards the U. S. , of your house exclu- sively ; not with any view to further emolument , but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having ...
... hands of your house , and , so far as regards the U. S. , of your house exclu- sively ; not with any view to further emolument , but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having ...
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... hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times , which obliges us to adopt such a con- clusion ; for children might be baptized , and were baptized , at various distances from their birth ...
... hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times , which obliges us to adopt such a con- clusion ; for children might be baptized , and were baptized , at various distances from their birth ...
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... hand , night and day , to baptize them in the very agonies of death.2 We must presume , therefore , that William Shakspeare was born on some day very little anterior to that of his baptism : and the more 10 SHAKSPEARE .
... hand , night and day , to baptize them in the very agonies of death.2 We must presume , therefore , that William Shakspeare was born on some day very little anterior to that of his baptism : and the more 10 SHAKSPEARE .
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... hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even acknowledged merit or absolute superiority must give way to it . Does a ...
... hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even acknowledged merit or absolute superiority must give way to it . Does a ...
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... critical journals and of news- papers were not at hand to diffuse or to strengthen the impressions which emanated from the capital , all opin- ions must have travelled slowly into the provinces But even 8 SHAKSPEARE . 25.
... critical journals and of news- papers were not at hand to diffuse or to strengthen the impressions which emanated from the capital , all opin- ions must have travelled slowly into the provinces But even 8 SHAKSPEARE . 25.
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