Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... morals ; on the other hand , loyalty could not but tolerate what was patronized by the sovereign ; and it happened that Elizabeth , James , and Charles I. , were all alike lovers and promoters of theatrical amusements , which were ...
... morals ; on the other hand , loyalty could not but tolerate what was patronized by the sovereign ; and it happened that Elizabeth , James , and Charles I. , were all alike lovers and promoters of theatrical amusements , which were ...
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... moral sensibility , upon which assumption , the wonder ceases that Cicero , Lord Chesterfield , and other brilliant men , who took the utmost pains with their sons , should have failed so conspicuously ; for possibly the mothers had ...
... moral sensibility , upon which assumption , the wonder ceases that Cicero , Lord Chesterfield , and other brilliant men , who took the utmost pains with their sons , should have failed so conspicuously ; for possibly the mothers had ...
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... moral fortitude , it might be a more salutary prayer , Give me riches and pov- erty , and afterwards neither . ' For the transitorial state between riches and poverty will teach a lesson both as to the baseness and the goodness of human ...
... moral fortitude , it might be a more salutary prayer , Give me riches and pov- erty , and afterwards neither . ' For the transitorial state between riches and poverty will teach a lesson both as to the baseness and the goodness of human ...
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... moral censures at a simple case of natural frality , youthful precipitancy of passion , of all trespasses the most venial , where the final intentions are honorable . But in this case there seems to have been something more in motion ...
... moral censures at a simple case of natural frality , youthful precipitancy of passion , of all trespasses the most venial , where the final intentions are honorable . But in this case there seems to have been something more in motion ...
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... moral reproof , in the very last drama which is supposed to have proceeded from his pen , and therefore with the force and sanctity of testamentary counsel . The Tempest is all but ascertained to have been composed in 1611 , that is ...
... moral reproof , in the very last drama which is supposed to have proceeded from his pen , and therefore with the force and sanctity of testamentary counsel . The Tempest is all but ascertained to have been composed in 1611 , that is ...
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