Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... given subject , truth has at last been hit upon , and long - established error exploded ; yet this does not apply to cases of individual power and knowledge , to a million of things beside , in which we are still to seek as much as ever ...
... given subject , truth has at last been hit upon , and long - established error exploded ; yet this does not apply to cases of individual power and knowledge , to a million of things beside , in which we are still to seek as much as ever ...
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... edition of Marlowe , 1850. But , in the Oxenden MS . , the name of the narrator is given in full.-ED. § Midsummer Night's Dream , i . 1 . still more famous , on the same account , just General View of the Subject . 23.
... edition of Marlowe , 1850. But , in the Oxenden MS . , the name of the narrator is given in full.-ED. § Midsummer Night's Dream , i . 1 . still more famous , on the same account , just General View of the Subject . 23.
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... given an admirable description of a madhouse in one of his plays . But it might be per- haps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from Bedlam at that time : and it might be answered , that the old poets took the same ...
... given an admirable description of a madhouse in one of his plays . But it might be per- haps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from Bedlam at that time : and it might be answered , that the old poets took the same ...
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... given us little , and that borrowed from others with great diffi- culty . But we may boast of our poets and philosophers . That's something . We have had strong heads and sound hearts among us . Thrown on one side of the world , and ...
... given us little , and that borrowed from others with great diffi- culty . But we may boast of our poets and philosophers . That's something . We have had strong heads and sound hearts among us . Thrown on one side of the world , and ...
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... given to Apelles would not disgrace the mouth of the prince of painters : " Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses , Cupid paid ; He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows ; His mother's doves , and team of sparrows ; Loses them ...
... given to Apelles would not disgrace the mouth of the prince of painters : " Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses , Cupid paid ; He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows ; His mother's doves , and team of sparrows ; Loses them ...
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