Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... three hundred years before , and that grace , youth , and beauty are things of modern date - as if Nature had ever been old , or the sun had first 66 shone on our folly and presumption . Because , 4 General View of the Subject .
... three hundred years before , and that grace , youth , and beauty are things of modern date - as if Nature had ever been old , or the sun had first 66 shone on our folly and presumption . Because , 4 General View of the Subject .
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... beauty or power , hits or misses , and is either very good indeed , or absolutely good for nothing . This character applies in particular to our literature in the age of Elizabeth , which is its best period , before the introduction of ...
... beauty or power , hits or misses , and is either very good indeed , or absolutely good for nothing . This character applies in particular to our literature in the age of Elizabeth , which is its best period , before the introduction of ...
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... beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love . From Venice they shall drag huge argosies , And from America the golden fleece , That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury ; * If learned Faustus will be ...
... beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love . From Venice they shall drag huge argosies , And from America the golden fleece , That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury ; * If learned Faustus will be ...
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... beauty of a thousand stars : Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter , When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms ; And none but thou shalt be my paranour . " [ Exeunt ...
... beauty of a thousand stars : Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter , When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms ; And none but thou shalt be my paranour . " [ Exeunt ...
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... Beauty , and the English Traveller . The barb of misfortune is sheathed in the mildness of the writer's temperament , and the story jogs on very comfortably , without effort or resist- ance , to the euthanasia of the catastrophe . In ...
... Beauty , and the English Traveller . The barb of misfortune is sheathed in the mildness of the writer's temperament , and the story jogs on very comfortably , without effort or resist- ance , to the euthanasia of the catastrophe . In ...
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