Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... provincial birthplace , though sharing with London through half a century the honor of his familiar pres- ence , nor the recollections of that brilliant literary circle with whom he lived in the metropolis , have SHAKSPEARE . 11.
... provincial birthplace , though sharing with London through half a century the honor of his familiar pres- ence , nor the recollections of that brilliant literary circle with whom he lived in the metropolis , have SHAKSPEARE . 11.
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... honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preeminently successful ; of one who , in a space of five and twenty years , after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land , and challenging notice from the ...
... honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preeminently successful ; of one who , in a space of five and twenty years , after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land , and challenging notice from the ...
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... honored by the especial notice of Queen Elizabeth , as well as by that of James I. At one time we were disposed to question the truth of this tradition ; but that was for want of having read attentively the lines of Ben Jonson to the ...
... honored by the especial notice of Queen Elizabeth , as well as by that of James I. At one time we were disposed to question the truth of this tradition ; but that was for want of having read attentively the lines of Ben Jonson to the ...
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... honor , because there men are simply discharging a duty , which once due will be due forever ; the saints of the theatre , on the other hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go ...
... honor , because there men are simply discharging a duty , which once due will be due forever ; the saints of the theatre , on the other hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go ...
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... honor ; and the most illustrious men of the seventeenth century were ao whit less fervent in their admiration than those of he eighteenth and the nineteenth , either as respected ts strength and sincerity , or as respected its open pro ...
... honor ; and the most illustrious men of the seventeenth century were ao whit less fervent in their admiration than those of he eighteenth and the nineteenth , either as respected ts strength and sincerity , or as respected its open pro ...
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