Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... poet's death ; and the reason for choosing this day might have had a reference to her illustrious grandfather's birthday , which , there is good reason for thinking , would be celebrated as a festival in the family for generations ...
... poet's death ; and the reason for choosing this day might have had a reference to her illustrious grandfather's birthday , which , there is good reason for thinking , would be celebrated as a festival in the family for generations ...
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... poet so preeminently successful ; of one who , in a space of five and twenty years , after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land , and challenging notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune ...
... poet so preeminently successful ; of one who , in a space of five and twenty years , after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land , and challenging notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune ...
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... , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient in the appropriate knowledge , } - yet , that of course he had a vague popular knowl- -- edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident 16 SHAKSPEARE .
... , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient in the appropriate knowledge , } - yet , that of course he had a vague popular knowl- -- edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident 16 SHAKSPEARE .
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Thomas De Quincey. edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident only led us into a discovery of our mistake . Twice or thrice we had observed , that if Shakspeare were quoted , that paper turned out not to be Addison's ; and at ...
Thomas De Quincey. edge of the mighty poet's cardinal dram as . Accident only led us into a discovery of our mistake . Twice or thrice we had observed , that if Shakspeare were quoted , that paper turned out not to be Addison's ; and at ...
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... poet , was amongst the sons of the feeble ; and between the authors of Cato and of King Lear there was a gulf never to be bridged over.4 mor . " But Dryden , we are told , pronounced Shakspeare already in his day a little obsolete ...
... poet , was amongst the sons of the feeble ; and between the authors of Cato and of King Lear there was a gulf never to be bridged over.4 mor . " But Dryden , we are told , pronounced Shakspeare already in his day a little obsolete ...
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