Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 11
... writer so meagre and so few ; and amongst them the larger part of doubtful authority . All the energy of curiosity di- rected upon this subject , through a period of one hundred and fifty years , ( for so long it is since Better- ton ...
... writer so meagre and so few ; and amongst them the larger part of doubtful authority . All the energy of curiosity di- rected upon this subject , through a period of one hundred and fifty years , ( for so long it is since Better- ton ...
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... writer re - affirms and clenches the judgment he has quoted , by saying , — His admirers , however , if he had admirers in that agc , possessed no portion of such enthusiasm . ' · It may , perhaps , be an instructive lesson to young ...
... writer re - affirms and clenches the judgment he has quoted , by saying , — His admirers , however , if he had admirers in that agc , possessed no portion of such enthusiasm . ' · It may , perhaps , be an instructive lesson to young ...
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... 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- ticular , it ...
... 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- ticular , it ...
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... 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.
... 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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... writer objects to Malone's principle of valua- tion . " We find , ' says he , that John Shakspeare also farmed the meadow of Tugton , containing sixteen acres , at the rate of eleven shillings per acre . Now what proof has Mr. Malone ...
... writer objects to Malone's principle of valua- tion . " We find , ' says he , that John Shakspeare also farmed the meadow of Tugton , containing sixteen acres , at the rate of eleven shillings per acre . Now what proof has Mr. Malone ...
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