Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... poetry lay hid in errors of the press , but , leaving these weightier matters of criticism to those who are more able and willing to bear the burden , try to bring out their real beauties to the eager sight , " draw the curtain of Time ...
... poetry lay hid in errors of the press , but , leaving these weightier matters of criticism to those who are more able and willing to bear the burden , try to bring out their real beauties to the eager sight , " draw the curtain of Time ...
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... poetry and lispings of the Muse , as when a fond parent brings forward a bashful child to make a display of its wit or learning . We hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . Dr ...
... poetry and lispings of the Muse , as when a fond parent brings forward a bashful child to make a display of its wit or learning . We hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . Dr ...
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... poetry ( I do not here speak of comedy ) to be compared to the great men of the age of Shakespear , and immediately after . They are a mighty phalanx of kindred spirits closing him round , moving in the same orbit , and impelled by the ...
... poetry ( I do not here speak of comedy ) to be compared to the great men of the age of Shakespear , and immediately after . They are a mighty phalanx of kindred spirits closing him round , moving in the same orbit , and impelled by the ...
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... poetry of the country at the period of which I have to treat ; independently of incidental and fortuitous causes , for which there is no accounting , but which , after all , have often the greatest share in determining the most ...
... poetry of the country at the period of which I have to treat ; independently of incidental and fortuitous causes , for which there is no accounting , but which , after all , have often the greatest share in determining the most ...
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... poetry of the age of Elizabeth , in the means of exciting terror and pity , in the delineation of the passions of grief , remorse , love , sympathy , the sense of shame , in the fond desires , the longings after immortality , in the ...
... poetry of the age of Elizabeth , in the means of exciting terror and pity , in the delineation of the passions of grief , remorse , love , sympathy , the sense of shame , in the fond desires , the longings after immortality , in the ...
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