Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 13
... once read , may be under- stood from Tate , who in his dedication to the altered play of King Lear , speaks of the original as an ob- scure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend : and the author of the Tatler , having occasion ...
... once read , may be under- stood from Tate , who in his dedication to the altered play of King Lear , speaks of the original as an ob- scure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend : and the author of the Tatler , having occasion ...
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... once due will be due forever ; the saints of the theatre , on the other hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even ...
... once due will be due forever ; the saints of the theatre , on the other hand , must bend to the local genius , and to the very reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even ...
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... once denounces himself as below his subject , if he can entertain such a question as seriously affecting the glory of the poet In some legends of saints , we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola about their ...
... once denounces himself as below his subject , if he can entertain such a question as seriously affecting the glory of the poet In some legends of saints , we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola about their ...
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... once asking of the bannes of matrimony , ' that is , in effect , dispensing with two out of the three customary ask- ings ; the second or subordinate part of the document being a bond entered into by two sureties , viz .: Fulke Sandells ...
... once asking of the bannes of matrimony , ' that is , in effect , dispensing with two out of the three customary ask- ings ; the second or subordinate part of the document being a bond entered into by two sureties , viz .: Fulke Sandells ...
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... once display'd , doth fall that very hour . ' These counsels were uttered nearly twenty years after the event in his own life , to which they probably look back ; for this play is supposed to have been written in Shakspeare's thirty ...
... once display'd , doth fall that very hour . ' These counsels were uttered nearly twenty years after the event in his own life , to which they probably look back ; for this play is supposed to have been written in Shakspeare's thirty ...
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