Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... society when the weight of that opprobrium was heaviest . In reality , there was at this period a collision of forces acting in opposite directions upon the estimation of the stage and scenical art , and therefore of all the ministers ...
... society when the weight of that opprobrium was heaviest . In reality , there was at this period a collision of forces acting in opposite directions upon the estimation of the stage and scenical art , and therefore of all the ministers ...
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... found at times in the society of the neighboring gentry . Ten years in advance of this period he was already in difficulties . But there is no proof that these difficulties had then reached a point of degradation , or of 38 SHAKSPEARE .
... found at times in the society of the neighboring gentry . Ten years in advance of this period he was already in difficulties . But there is no proof that these difficulties had then reached a point of degradation , or of 38 SHAKSPEARE .
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... society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis , is a question yet unsettled , but which has been debated as keenly as if it had some great dependencies . Upon this we shall ...
... society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis , is a question yet unsettled , but which has been debated as keenly as if it had some great dependencies . Upon this we shall ...
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... society in Stratford was such that , even had the Shakspeare family main- tained their superiority , the main body of their daily associates must still have been found amongst persons below the rank of gentry . The poet must inevitably ...
... society in Stratford was such that , even had the Shakspeare family main- tained their superiority , the main body of their daily associates must still have been found amongst persons below the rank of gentry . The poet must inevitably ...
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... society of Stratford . Hospitalities on a liberal scale would be offered to these men . Not impossibly this fact might be one principal key to those dilapidations which the family estate had suffered . These actors , on their part ...
... society of Stratford . Hospitalities on a liberal scale would be offered to these men . Not impossibly this fact might be one principal key to those dilapidations which the family estate had suffered . These actors , on their part ...
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