Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 20
... thing for the latter years of their lives but Bayle's Dictionary . And most of the little scintillations of erudition , which may be found in the notes to the Characteristics , and in the Essays of Addison , are derived , almost without ...
... thing for the latter years of their lives but Bayle's Dictionary . And most of the little scintillations of erudition , which may be found in the notes to the Characteristics , and in the Essays of Addison , are derived , almost without ...
Page 22
... thing as keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state , or state of abeyance ; an effort of self - conquest realized in more cases than one by the ancient fathers , both Greek and Latin , with regard to the profane ...
... thing as keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state , or state of abeyance ; an effort of self - conquest realized in more cases than one by the ancient fathers , both Greek and Latin , with regard to the profane ...
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... thing in our power to the settlement of a point so obscure . What we have wished to protest against , is the spirit of partisanship in which this question has too generally been discussed . For , whilst some with a foolish affectation ...
... thing in our power to the settlement of a point so obscure . What we have wished to protest against , is the spirit of partisanship in which this question has too generally been discussed . For , whilst some with a foolish affectation ...
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... - ness of his nature made him an apt subject for female blandishments , possibly for female arts . Without ' mputing , however , to this Anne Hathaway any thing so hateful as a settled plot for insnaring him , 54 SHAKSPEARE .
... - ness of his nature made him an apt subject for female blandishments , possibly for female arts . Without ' mputing , however , to this Anne Hathaway any thing so hateful as a settled plot for insnaring him , 54 SHAKSPEARE .
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... thing , and one more to be coveted , since Shakspeare has extended the domains of human consciousness , and pushed its dark frontiers into regions not so much as dimly descried or even suspected before his time , far less illuminated ...
... thing , and one more to be coveted , since Shakspeare has extended the domains of human consciousness , and pushed its dark frontiers into regions not so much as dimly descried or even suspected before his time , far less illuminated ...
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