Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... regards the U. S. , of your house exclu- sively ; not with any view to further emolument , but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having brought together so widely scattered a ...
... regards the U. S. , of your house exclu- sively ; not with any view to further emolument , but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already ren- dered me ; namely , first , in having brought together so widely scattered a ...
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... regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those peri- odical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in par ...
... regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . , ) would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those peri- odical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in par ...
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... regard to Shakspeare , we shall now proclaim a discovery which we made some twenty years ago . We , like others , from seeing frequent references to Shakspeare in the Spectator , had acqui- esced in the common belief , that although ...
... regard to Shakspeare , we shall now proclaim a discovery which we made some twenty years ago . We , like others , from seeing frequent references to Shakspeare in the Spectator , had acqui- esced in the common belief , that although ...
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... regard to his 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 ...
... regard to his 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 ...
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... regard to the sweeping assertion , that for nearly a hundred years after his death Shakspeare was almost entirely neglected , ' we shall meet this scan- dalous falsehood , by a rapid view of his fortunes during the century in question ...
... regard to the sweeping assertion , that for nearly a hundred years after his death Shakspeare was almost entirely neglected , ' we shall meet this scan- dalous falsehood , by a rapid view of his fortunes during the century in question ...
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