Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune , created by his personal efforts , and by labors purely intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe which has swept away so entirely the ...
... notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune , created by his personal efforts , and by labors purely intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe which has swept away so entirely the ...
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... notice by a friend : and the author of the Tatler , having occasion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Davenant's alteration of that celebrated drama , in which almost every original beauty is either ...
... notice by a friend : and the author of the Tatler , having occasion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Davenant's alteration of that celebrated drama , in which almost every original beauty is either ...
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... 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 Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary ...
... 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 Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary ...
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... notice of Queen Elizabeth , as well as by that of James I. At one time we were disposed to question the truth of this tradition ; but that was for want of having read attentively the lines of Ben Jonson to the memory of Shakspeare ...
... notice of Queen Elizabeth , as well as by that of James I. At one time we were disposed to question the truth of this tradition ; but that was for want of having read attentively the lines of Ben Jonson to the memory of Shakspeare ...
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... notice than our slender materials will furnish . To have been the mother of Shakspeare , how august a title to the reverence of infinite generations and of centuries beyond the vision of prophecy . A plausible hypothesis has been ...
... notice than our slender materials will furnish . To have been the mother of Shakspeare , how august a title to the reverence of infinite generations and of centuries beyond the vision of prophecy . A plausible hypothesis has been ...
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