Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr. Nahum Tate is not of a class of whom it can be safe to say that they are well known : ' they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure ...
... stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr. Nahum Tate is not of a class of whom it can be safe to say that they are well known : ' they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure ...
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... stage . It was there , beyond a doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not pro- fessing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c ...
... stage . It was there , beyond a doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not pro- fessing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c ...
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... stage . In this trans- mission of the torch ( λaμnadoуogia ) Dryden succeeds to Milton ; he was born nearly thirty years later ; about thirty years they were contemporaries ; and by thirty years , or nearly , Dryden survived his great ...
... stage . In this trans- mission of the torch ( λaμnadoуogia ) Dryden succeeds to Milton ; he was born nearly thirty years later ; about thirty years they were contemporaries ; and by thirty years , or nearly , Dryden survived his great ...
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... stage pomp , novelty is for all minds an essential condition of attraction . Moreover , in some departments of the comic , Beaumont and Fletcher , when writing in com- A bination , really had a freedom and breadth of manner SHAKSPEARE . 23.
... stage pomp , novelty is for all minds an essential condition of attraction . Moreover , in some departments of the comic , Beaumont and Fletcher , when writing in com- A bination , really had a freedom and breadth of manner SHAKSPEARE . 23.
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... stage and scenical art , and therefore of all the ministers in its equipage . Puritanism frowned upon these pur- suits , as ruinous to public morals ; on the other hand , loyalty could not but tolerate what was patronized by the ...
... stage and scenical art , and therefore of all the ministers in its equipage . Puritanism frowned upon these pur- suits , as ruinous to public morals ; on the other hand , loyalty could not but tolerate what was patronized by the ...
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