Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... hear with our ears , and understand with our understandings , they could hear , see , and understand nothing . A falser in- ference could not be drawn , nor one more contrary to the maxims and cautions of a wise humanity . " Think ...
... hear with our ears , and understand with our understandings , they could hear , see , and understand nothing . A falser in- ference could not be drawn , nor one more contrary to the maxims and cautions of a wise humanity . " Think ...
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... hear , He wonder would much more ; yet such to some appear . " Fancy's air - drawn pictures after history's waking dream showed like clouds over mountains ; and from the romance of real life to the idlest fiction , the transition seemed ...
... hear , He wonder would much more ; yet such to some appear . " Fancy's air - drawn pictures after history's waking dream showed like clouds over mountains ; and from the romance of real life to the idlest fiction , the transition seemed ...
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... hear ? What ! a grey beard , hollow eyes , withered body , decayed limbs , and all in one night ? Eumenides . One night ! Thou hast here slept forty years , by what enchantress , as yet it is not known : and behold the twig to which ...
... hear ? What ! a grey beard , hollow eyes , withered body , decayed limbs , and all in one night ? Eumenides . One night ! Thou hast here slept forty years , by what enchantress , as yet it is not known : and behold the twig to which ...
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... hear and see 99 : which must apply to the prose style of his work , called Euphues and his England , || and is much more like Sir * This is , in all probability , an inexact statement . Lyly ad dressed two petitions to Queen Elizabeth ...
... hear and see 99 : which must apply to the prose style of his work , called Euphues and his England , || and is much more like Sir * This is , in all probability , an inexact statement . Lyly ad dressed two petitions to Queen Elizabeth ...
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... Hear me with patience , and tremble not at my speeches . Though my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years ; oh ! would I had never seen Wertenberg , never read book ! " A finer compliment ...
... Hear me with patience , and tremble not at my speeches . Though my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years ; oh ! would I had never seen Wertenberg , never read book ! " A finer compliment ...
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