Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of ElizabethWiley & Putnam, 1845 - 218 páginas |
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... speak without offence or flattery ) never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had some- thing in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not ...
... speak without offence or flattery ) never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had some- thing in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not ...
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... speak and think of those who had the misfortune to write or live before us , as labouring under very singular privations and disad- vantages in not having the benefit of those improvements which we have made , as buried in the grossest ...
... speak and think of those who had the misfortune to write or live before us , as labouring under very singular privations and disad- vantages in not having the benefit of those improvements which we have made , as buried in the grossest ...
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... speak with veneration of old English literature ; but the homage we pay to it is more akin to the rites of superstition than to the worship of true religion . Our faith is doubtful ; our love cold ; our knowledge little or none . We now ...
... speak with veneration of old English literature ; but the homage we pay to it is more akin to the rites of superstition than to the worship of true religion . Our faith is doubtful ; our love cold ; our knowledge little or none . We now ...
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... speaking of . Shakspeare did not look upon himself in this light , as a sort of monster of poetical genius , or on his contemporaries as " less than smallest dwarfs , " when he speaks with true , not false modesty , of himself and them ...
... speaking of . Shakspeare did not look upon himself in this light , as a sort of monster of poetical genius , or on his contemporaries as " less than smallest dwarfs , " when he speaks with true , not false modesty , of himself and them ...
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... speak of comedy ) , to be compared to the great men of the age of Shakspeare , and im- mediately after . They are a mighty phalanx of kindred spirits closing him round , moving in the same orbit , and impelled by the same causes in ...
... speak of comedy ) , to be compared to the great men of the age of Shakspeare , and im- mediately after . They are a mighty phalanx of kindred spirits closing him round , moving in the same orbit , and impelled by the same causes in ...
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