Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... poet died of the plague , † and Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern quarrel . The strict authority of parents , the inequality of ranks , or the hereditary feuds between different fami- lies , made more unhappy loves or matches . " The ...
... poet died of the plague , † and Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern quarrel . The strict authority of parents , the inequality of ranks , or the hereditary feuds between different fami- lies , made more unhappy loves or matches . " The ...
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... poets , who had never mingled in the vicissitudes , the dangers , or excitements of the chase , such descriptions of hunting and other athletic games , as are to be found in Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , or Fletcher's Two Noble ...
... poets , who had never mingled in the vicissitudes , the dangers , or excitements of the chase , such descriptions of hunting and other athletic games , as are to be found in Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , or Fletcher's Two Noble ...
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... poets and playwrights of the period , like the Great Assizes holden in Parnassus , 1645 , and Suckling's Session of the Poets . — ED . † [ Act iii . sc . 2. Hawkins ' Origin of the English Drama , 1773 , iii . 248-9 . ] of different ...
... poets and playwrights of the period , like the Great Assizes holden in Parnassus , 1645 , and Suckling's Session of the Poets . — ED . † [ Act iii . sc . 2. Hawkins ' Origin of the English Drama , 1773 , iii . 248-9 . ] of different ...
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... poets and philosophers . That's something . We have had strong heads and sound hearts among us . Thrown on one side of the world , and left to bustle for ourselves , we have fought out many a battle for truth and freedom . That is 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 left to bustle for ourselves , we have fought out many a battle for truth and freedom . That is our ...
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... poet has not stamped the peculiar genius of his age upon this first attempt , it is no inconsiderable proof of strength of mind and con- ception sustained by its own sense of propriety alone , to have so far anticipated the taste of ...
... poet has not stamped the peculiar genius of his age upon this first attempt , it is no inconsiderable proof of strength of mind and con- ception sustained by its own sense of propriety alone , to have so far anticipated the taste of ...
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