Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... , commentaries , or critical collations of the text ; and , accordingly , Addison looked upon all of them , except those few who professed themselves followers in the 6 retinue and equipage of the ancients , as creatures of SHAKSPEARE . 15.
... , commentaries , or critical collations of the text ; and , accordingly , Addison looked upon all of them , except those few who professed themselves followers in the 6 retinue and equipage of the ancients , as creatures of SHAKSPEARE . 15.
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... looked upon human life with an eye of strict attention , that the abstract image of womanhood , in its loveliness , its delicacy , and its modesty , nowhere makes itself more impressive or more advantageously felt than in the humblest ...
... looked upon human life with an eye of strict attention , that the abstract image of womanhood , in its loveliness , its delicacy , and its modesty , nowhere makes itself more impressive or more advantageously felt than in the humblest ...
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... looked for no pecuniary advantages , would probably have been early sought in marriage . But as the daughter of a sub- stantial yeoman , ' who would expect some fortune in his daughter's suitors , she had , to speak coarsely , a little ...
... looked for no pecuniary advantages , would probably have been early sought in marriage . But as the daughter of a sub- stantial yeoman , ' who would expect some fortune in his daughter's suitors , she had , to speak coarsely , a little ...
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... looked upon as so venial , none so compatible with a noble Robin - Hood style of character , as this very trespass upon what were regarded as feræ naturæ , and not at all as domestic property . But had it been other- wise , a trespass ...
... looked upon as so venial , none so compatible with a noble Robin - Hood style of character , as this very trespass upon what were regarded as feræ naturæ , and not at all as domestic property . But had it been other- wise , a trespass ...
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... looked for there . The Antigone and the Electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classi- cal antiquity offers to our respect , but assuredly not to our impassioned love , as disciplined and exalted in the ...
... looked for there . The Antigone and the Electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classi- cal antiquity offers to our respect , but assuredly not to our impassioned love , as disciplined and exalted in the ...
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