Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... learning | and unexampled acquirement , they did not forget that they were men with all their endeavours after excel- lence , they did not lay aside the strong original bent and character of their minds . What they performed was chiefly ...
... learning | and unexampled acquirement , they did not forget that they were men with all their endeavours after excel- lence , they did not lay aside the strong original bent and character of their minds . What they performed was chiefly ...
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... learning . We hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . Dr. Johnson said of these writers generally , that " they were sought after because they were scarce , and would not have been ...
... learning . We hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . Dr. Johnson said of these writers generally , that " they were sought after because they were scarce , and would not have been ...
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... learning and study , and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse , for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) are the most incorrigible and insufferable of all others . The story of ...
... learning and study , and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse , for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) are the most incorrigible and insufferable of all others . The story of ...
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... learning , are centered in his person ; and from a short - lived dream of supreme felicity and drunken power , he sinks into an abyss of darkness and perdition . This is the alternative to which he sub- mits ; the bond which he signs ...
... learning , are centered in his person ; and from a short - lived dream of supreme felicity and drunken power , he sinks into an abyss of darkness and perdition . This is the alternative to which he sub- mits ; the bond which he signs ...
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... learning is the ruling passion of this drama ; and its indications are as mild and amiable in them as its ungoverned pursuit has been fatal to Faustus : " Yet , for he was a scholar once admir'd For wondrous knowledge in our German ...
... learning is the ruling passion of this drama ; and its indications are as mild and amiable in them as its ungoverned pursuit has been fatal to Faustus : " Yet , for he was a scholar once admir'd For wondrous knowledge in our German ...
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