Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... literature , if he did really speak of Lear as an obscure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend , ' of which we must be allowed to doubt , was then utter- ing a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few ...
... literature , if he did really speak of Lear as an obscure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend , ' of which we must be allowed to doubt , was then utter- ing a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few ...
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... literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those peri- odical ...
... literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those peri- odical ...
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... literature , it is certain that Addison was pro- foundly ignorant of Chaucer and Spenser . Milton only , and why ? simply because he was a brilliant scholar , and stands like a bridge between the Christian literature and the Pagan ...
... literature , it is certain that Addison was pro- foundly ignorant of Chaucer and Spenser . Milton only , and why ? simply because he was a brilliant scholar , and stands like a bridge between the Christian literature and the Pagan ...
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... literature has to show . He sneers continually at the regular built academic pedant ; but he himself , though no academic , was essentially the very impersonation of pedantry . No thought however beautiful , no image however mag ...
... literature has to show . He sneers continually at the regular built academic pedant ; but he himself , though no academic , was essentially the very impersonation of pedantry . No thought however beautiful , no image however mag ...
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... literature was necessarily slow , and its ex- pansion narrow . But this is a topic which has already been treated unfairly , not with regard to Shakspeare only , but to Milton , as well as many others . The truth is , we have not facts ...
... literature was necessarily slow , and its ex- pansion narrow . But this is a topic which has already been treated unfairly , not with regard to Shakspeare only , but to Milton , as well as many others . The truth is , we have not facts ...
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