Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens most disingenuously pretends , to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare ? Was Addison's neglect representative of a general ...
... instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens most disingenuously pretends , to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare ? Was Addison's neglect representative of a general ...
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... instance brought into a sort of epigrammatic antithesis with the humility of his for- tunes ; secondly , under a baser impulse , the malicious pleasure of seeing a great man degraded . Accord ingly , as in the case of Milton , 16 ...
... instance brought into a sort of epigrammatic antithesis with the humility of his for- tunes ; secondly , under a baser impulse , the malicious pleasure of seeing a great man degraded . Accord ingly , as in the case of Milton , 16 ...
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... instance of malignity . Power , in their minds , is best illustrated by malice or by the infliction of pain . To this unwelcome fact we have some evidence in the wretched tale which we have just dismissed ; and there is another of the ...
... instance of malignity . Power , in their minds , is best illustrated by malice or by the infliction of pain . To this unwelcome fact we have some evidence in the wretched tale which we have just dismissed ; and there is another of the ...
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... instance , - a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female char- acter had not been seen as in a dream before Shak- speare called into perfect life the radiant shapes of ...
... instance , - a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female char- acter had not been seen as in a dream before Shak- speare called into perfect life the radiant shapes of ...
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... instance . The Antony of Shakspeare , immortal for its execution , is found , after all , as regards the primary conception , in history . Shakspeare's delineation is but the expan- sion of the germ already preƫxisting , by way of ...
... instance . The Antony of Shakspeare , immortal for its execution , is found , after all , as regards the primary conception , in history . Shakspeare's delineation is but the expan- sion of the germ already preƫxisting , by way of ...
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