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... natural or legendary , were always actual personages , his- torical or imaginary ; and in that respect these primitive plays approached nearer to the regular drama than those by which they were succeeded - the Morals , or Moral- plays ...
... natural or legendary , were always actual personages , his- torical or imaginary ; and in that respect these primitive plays approached nearer to the regular drama than those by which they were succeeded - the Morals , or Moral- plays ...
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... natural transition very similar to that by which the sacred and supernatural characters of the religious drama had been converted into the allegorical personifications of the moral - plays , these last , gradually becoming less and less ...
... natural transition very similar to that by which the sacred and supernatural characters of the religious drama had been converted into the allegorical personifications of the moral - plays , these last , gradually becoming less and less ...
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... natural and open - hearted moods , and over a remarkably extended range of condi- tions . We know , from even the scanty fragments of their history that have come down to us , that Shak- speare , and Jonson , and Beaumont , and Fletcher ...
... natural and open - hearted moods , and over a remarkably extended range of condi- tions . We know , from even the scanty fragments of their history that have come down to us , that Shak- speare , and Jonson , and Beaumont , and Fletcher ...
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... natural expres- siveness . The thought , in fact , is generally more poetical than the language ; it is a spirit of poetry encased in a rhetorical form . Yet , notwithstanding the conceits into which it frequently runs - and which ...
... natural expres- siveness . The thought , in fact , is generally more poetical than the language ; it is a spirit of poetry encased in a rhetorical form . Yet , notwithstanding the conceits into which it frequently runs - and which ...
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... natural pen . Harvey , too , with all his merits , was both vain and envious ; and he had some absurdities which afforded tempting game for satire . In particular he plumed himself on having reformed the barbarism of English verse by ...
... natural pen . Harvey , too , with all his merits , was both vain and envious ; and he had some absurdities which afforded tempting game for satire . In particular he plumed himself on having reformed the barbarism of English verse by ...
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