Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 14
... young readers , if we now show them , by a short sifting of these confident dogmatists , how easy it is for a careless or a half - read man to circulate the most absolute false- hoods under the semblance of truth ; falsehoods which ...
... young readers , if we now show them , by a short sifting of these confident dogmatists , how easy it is for a careless or a half - read man to circulate the most absolute false- hoods under the semblance of truth ; falsehoods which ...
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... young lady of excellent descent and connections , and an heiress of considerable wealth . She brought to her husband , as her marriage portion , the landed estate of Asbies , which , upon any just valuation , must be con- sidered as a ...
... young lady of excellent descent and connections , and an heiress of considerable wealth . She brought to her husband , as her marriage portion , the landed estate of Asbies , which , upon any just valuation , must be con- sidered as a ...
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... young William had completed his tenth year before he heard the first signals of distress ; and for so long a period his education would probably be conducted on as liberal a scale as the resources of Stratford would allow . Through this ...
... young William had completed his tenth year before he heard the first signals of distress ; and for so long a period his education would probably be conducted on as liberal a scale as the resources of Stratford would allow . Through this ...
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... young man of that class , however noble in appearance , is somewhat degraded in the eyes of women , by the necessity which his indigence imposes of working under a master ; but a beautiful young woman , in the very poorest family ...
... young man of that class , however noble in appearance , is somewhat degraded in the eyes of women , by the necessity which his indigence imposes of working under a master ; but a beautiful young woman , in the very poorest family ...
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... young woman , five years past her majority , wearing the semblance of having been led astray by a boy who had still two years and a half to run of his minority . Shakspeare him- self , looking back on this part of his youthful history ...
... young woman , five years past her majority , wearing the semblance of having been led astray by a boy who had still two years and a half to run of his minority . Shakspeare him- self , looking back on this part of his youthful history ...
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