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... probably a tradition floating in the seven- teenth century that Shakspeare died upon his birthday : now it is beyond a doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption that no parents , living ...
... probably a tradition floating in the seven- teenth century that Shakspeare died upon his birthday : now it is beyond a doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption that no parents , living ...
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... probably little else , amongst the French classics . Hence it arose that he took upon himself to speak sneeringly of Tasso . To this , which was a bold act for his timid mind , he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau . Of the ...
... probably little else , amongst the French classics . Hence it arose that he took upon himself to speak sneeringly of Tasso . To this , which was a bold act for his timid mind , he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau . Of the ...
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... Probably Addison's fear of the national feeling was a good deal strengthened by his awe of Milton and of Dryden , both of whom had expressed a homage towards Shakspeare which language cannot transcend . Amongst his political friends ...
... Probably Addison's fear of the national feeling was a good deal strengthened by his awe of Milton and of Dryden , both of whom had expressed a homage towards Shakspeare which language cannot transcend . Amongst his political friends ...
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... probably be sincere . In James we can readily suppose it to have been assumed ; for he was a pedant in a different sense from Lord Shaftesbury , not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry ...
... probably be sincere . In James we can readily suppose it to have been assumed ; for he was a pedant in a different sense from Lord Shaftesbury , not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry ...
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... probably , was Milton's state of feeling towards Shak- speare after 1642 , when the theatres were suppressed , and the fanatical fervour in its noontide heat . Yet even then he did not belie his reverence intellectually for Shakspeare ...
... probably , was Milton's state of feeling towards Shak- speare after 1642 , when the theatres were suppressed , and the fanatical fervour in its noontide heat . Yet even then he did not belie his reverence intellectually for Shakspeare ...
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Page 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Page 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.