Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... circumstances under which they were originally delivered , upwards of fifty years since , may be found in the Memoirs of William Hazlitt , 1867 , 2 vols . , 8vo . The present republication is a faithful copy of the Author's Editions ...
... circumstances under which they were originally delivered , upwards of fifty years since , may be found in the Memoirs of William Hazlitt , 1867 , 2 vols . , 8vo . The present republication is a faithful copy of the Author's Editions ...
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... circumstances of the time , and is distinguished from his immediate contemporaries , not in kind , but in degree and greater variety of excellence . He did not form a * " Shakespeare , ' says Hazlitt , ' towered above his fellows , in ...
... circumstances of the time , and is distinguished from his immediate contemporaries , not in kind , but in degree and greater variety of excellence . He did not form a * " Shakespeare , ' says Hazlitt , ' towered above his fellows , in ...
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... circumstances of the time , the recent diffusion of letters , in local situation , and in the character of the men who adorned that period , and availed themselves so nobly of the advantages placed , within their reach . I shall here ...
... circumstances of the time , the recent diffusion of letters , in local situation , and in the character of the men who adorned that period , and availed themselves so nobly of the advantages placed , within their reach . I shall here ...
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... circumstance could hardly have afforded so much advantage to the poets of that day , who were themselves , in fact , the translators , as it shows the general curiosity and increasing interest in such subjects , as a prevailing feature ...
... circumstance could hardly have afforded so much advantage to the poets of that day , who were themselves , in fact , the translators , as it shows the general curiosity and increasing interest in such subjects , as a prevailing feature ...
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... circumstances of every - day life , and of the easiest tempers , to show the workings , or rather the inefficacy of the passions , the vis inertiæ of tragedy . His incidents strike from their very famili- arity , and the distresses he ...
... circumstances of every - day life , and of the easiest tempers , to show the workings , or rather the inefficacy of the passions , the vis inertiæ of tragedy . His incidents strike from their very famili- arity , and the distresses he ...
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