Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory on both 22d and 23d . On a first review of the circumstances , we have reason to feel no ...
... perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory on both 22d and 23d . On a first review of the circumstances , we have reason to feel no ...
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... perhaps something of a scandalous interest , which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife , but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet ...
... perhaps something of a scandalous interest , which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife , but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet ...
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... perhaps partly to the incorrect state of his works , he was ALMOST ENTIRELY NEglected . ' This critic then goes on to quote with approbation the opinion of Malone , ' that if he had been read , ad- mired , studied , and imitated , in ...
... perhaps partly to the incorrect state of his works , he was ALMOST ENTIRELY NEglected . ' This critic then goes on to quote with approbation the opinion of Malone , ' that if he had been read , ad- mired , studied , and imitated , in ...
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... perhaps , be an instructive lesson to young readers , if we now show them , by a short sifting of these confident dogmatists , how easy it is for a careless or a half - read man to circulate the most absolute false- hoods under the ...
... perhaps , be an instructive lesson to young readers , if we now show them , by a short sifting of these confident dogmatists , how easy it is for a careless or a half - read man to circulate the most absolute false- hoods under the ...
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... perhaps he viewed as a national prejudice . Those who have hap- pened , like ourselves , to see the effect of passionate music and deep - inwoven harmonics ' upon the feeling of an idiot , 3 may conceive what we mean . Such music does ...
... perhaps he viewed as a national prejudice . Those who have hap- pened , like ourselves , to see the effect of passionate music and deep - inwoven harmonics ' upon the feeling of an idiot , 3 may conceive what we mean . Such music does ...
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