Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... known : ' they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure , and good reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity ; for else this same vilest of travesties , Mr. Nahum's Lear , would consecrate his name to ...
... known : ' they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure , and good reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity ; for else this same vilest of travesties , Mr. Nahum's Lear , would consecrate his name to ...
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... known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think such an acquaintance any ways essential to the character of an elegant scholar and littérateur ...
... known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think such an acquaintance any ways essential to the character of an elegant scholar and littérateur ...
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... conclu- sive one against his popularity . We answer , that , considering the bulk of his plays collectively , the editions were not few . Compared with any known case , the copies sold . of Shakspeare were quite 24 SHAKSPEARE .
... conclu- sive one against his popularity . We answer , that , considering the bulk of his plays collectively , the editions were not few . Compared with any known case , the copies sold . of Shakspeare were quite 24 SHAKSPEARE .
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... known to have united with his town calling the rural and miscellaneous oc- cupations of a farmer . Meantime his avowed business stood upon a very different footing from the same trade as it is exercised in modern times . Gloves were in ...
... known to have united with his town calling the rural and miscellaneous oc- cupations of a farmer . Meantime his avowed business stood upon a very different footing from the same trade as it is exercised in modern times . Gloves were in ...
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... known cases where the mother has furnished all the intellect , and the father all the moral sensibility , upon which assumption , the wonder ceases that Cicero , Lord Chesterfield , and other brilliant men , who took the utmost pains ...
... known cases where the mother has furnished all the intellect , and the father all the moral sensibility , upon which assumption , the wonder ceases that Cicero , Lord Chesterfield , and other brilliant men , who took the utmost pains ...
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