Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... popular notion of his literary character , or at least to mark it by severer lines of distinction . It is already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known ...
... popular notion of his literary character , or at least to mark it by severer lines of distinction . It is already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known ...
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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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... popular mind ; too well aware of it . The feeble constitution of the poetic faculty , as existing in himself , forbade his sympathizing with Shakspeare ; the proportions were too colossal for his delicate vision ; and yet , as one who ...
... popular mind ; too well aware of it . The feeble constitution of the poetic faculty , as existing in himself , forbade his sympathizing with Shakspeare ; the proportions were too colossal for his delicate vision ; and yet , as one who ...
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... popularity , ( the question then at issue , ) but with regard to his diction and choice of words . To cite Dryden as a witness for any purpose against Shakspeare , Dryden , who of all men had the most ransacked wit and exhausted ...
... popularity , ( the question then at issue , ) but with regard to his diction and choice of words . To cite Dryden as a witness for any purpose against Shakspeare , Dryden , who of all men had the most ransacked wit and exhausted ...
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... - sive one against his popularity . We answer , that , considering the bulk of his plays collectively , the editions were not few . Compared with any known case , the copies sold . of Shakspeare were quite 24 SHAKSPEARE .
... - sive one against his popularity . We answer , that , considering the bulk of his plays collectively , the editions were not few . Compared with any known case , the copies sold . of Shakspeare were quite 24 SHAKSPEARE .
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