Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... whole , it is as well perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory on both 22d and 23d . On a first review of the circumstances , we have ...
... whole , it is as well perhaps to acquiesce in the old belief , that Shak- speare was born and died on the 23d of April . We cannot do wrong if we drink to his memory on both 22d and 23d . On a first review of the circumstances , we have ...
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... whole truth be told , and then we shall see how much stress is to be laid upon such a judgment . second Lord Shaftesbury , the author of the Character istics , was the grandson of that famous political agitator , The the Chancellor ...
... whole truth be told , and then we shall see how much stress is to be laid upon such a judgment . second Lord Shaftesbury , the author of the Character istics , was the grandson of that famous political agitator , The the Chancellor ...
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Thomas De Quincey. the Chancellor Shaftesbury , who passed his whole life in storms of his own creation . The second Lord Shaftesbury was a man of crazy constitution , querulous from ill health , and had received an eccentric educa- tion ...
Thomas De Quincey. the Chancellor Shaftesbury , who passed his whole life in storms of his own creation . The second Lord Shaftesbury was a man of crazy constitution , querulous from ill health , and had received an eccentric educa- tion ...
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... whole region suffer more from internal and spon- taneous agitation , but it would be the more frequently traversed vindictively from without , and harassed by flying parties from Oxford , or others of the king's garrisons . Thirdly ...
... whole region suffer more from internal and spon- taneous agitation , but it would be the more frequently traversed vindictively from without , and harassed by flying parties from Oxford , or others of the king's garrisons . Thirdly ...
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... the conclusion , that had his friends furnished him with ampler funds , and had his marriage been well assorted or happy , we- the world of posterity - should have lost the whole benefit and delight which , we have SHAKSPEARE . 57.
... the conclusion , that had his friends furnished him with ampler funds , and had his marriage been well assorted or happy , we- the world of posterity - should have lost the whole benefit and delight which , we have SHAKSPEARE . 57.
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