Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey Institution |
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... passion , imagination , thought and language , thrown , heaped , massed together without careful polishing or exact method , but poured out in unconcerned profusion from the lap of nature and genius in boundless and unrivalled ...
... passion , imagination , thought and language , thrown , heaped , massed together without careful polishing or exact method , but poured out in unconcerned profusion from the lap of nature and genius in boundless and unrivalled ...
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... passions of grief , remorse , love , sympathy , the sense of shame , in the fond desires , the longings after immortality , in the heaven of hope , and the abyss of despair it lays open to us * . The literature of this age then , I ...
... passions of grief , remorse , love , sympathy , the sense of shame , in the fond desires , the longings after immortality , in the heaven of hope , and the abyss of despair it lays open to us * . The literature of this age then , I ...
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... passions of terror or pity might be gathered from common and actual observation — might be discerned in the workings of the face , the expres- sions of the tongue , the writhings of a troubled conscience . " Your face , my Thane , is as ...
... passions of terror or pity might be gathered from common and actual observation — might be discerned in the workings of the face , the expres- sions of the tongue , the writhings of a troubled conscience . " Your face , my Thane , is as ...
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... passions and of lawless power were less regulated , and produced more strange and desperate catastrophes . The tales of Boc- cacio are founded on the great pestilence of Florence , Fletcher the poet died of the plague , and Marlow was ...
... passions and of lawless power were less regulated , and produced more strange and desperate catastrophes . The tales of Boc- cacio are founded on the great pestilence of Florence , Fletcher the poet died of the plague , and Marlow was ...
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... passions as we , only less disguised , and less sub- ject to controul . Deckar has given an admirable description of a mad - house in one of his plays . But it might be perhaps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from ...
... passions as we , only less disguised , and less sub- ject to controul . Deckar has given an admirable description of a mad - house in one of his plays . But it might be perhaps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from ...
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