Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... less eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysterious , and , in the English church , forced not only upon the atten- tion , but even upon the eye of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English church ...
... less eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysterious , and , in the English church , forced not only upon the atten- tion , but even upon the eye of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English church ...
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... less fervor ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand times more . Jeremy Taylor he quoted only to ridicule ; and even Locke , the confidential friend of his grandfather , he never alludes to without a sneer . As to Shakspeare , so far from ...
... less fervor ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand times more . Jeremy Taylor he quoted only to ridicule ; and even Locke , the confidential friend of his grandfather , he never alludes to without a sneer . As to Shakspeare , so far from ...
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... less when offered hypocritically than in full sincerity . Next let us consider at the very moment of Shakspeare's death , who were the leaders of the British youth , the principes juventutis , in the two fields , equally impor- tant to ...
... less when offered hypocritically than in full sincerity . Next let us consider at the very moment of Shakspeare's death , who were the leaders of the British youth , the principes juventutis , in the two fields , equally impor- tant to ...
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... 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- Ession.7 It is therefore a false notion , that the general sym- athy with ...
... 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- Ession.7 It is therefore a false notion , that the general sym- athy with ...
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... less than a century from his death , should have been able to glean so little . And for the solution of this wonder , we must throw ourselves chiefly upon the explanations we have made as to the parliamentary war , and the local ravages ...
... less than a century from his death , should have been able to glean so little . And for the solution of this wonder , we must throw ourselves chiefly upon the explanations we have made as to the parliamentary war , and the local ravages ...
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