Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... style ; and it were instance departed from it . a certain cast of thought and character ; and our liberty has enabled us to make the most of it . We are of a stiff clay , not moulded into every fashion , with stubborn joints not easily ...
... style ; and it were instance departed from it . a certain cast of thought and character ; and our liberty has enabled us to make the most of it . We are of a stiff clay , not moulded into every fashion , with stubborn joints not easily ...
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... style of composition , there can be neither offence nor presumption in saying , that it is at least better than our second - hand imitations of others . Our understand- ing ( such as it is and must remain to be good for any . thing ) is ...
... style of composition , there can be neither offence nor presumption in saying , that it is at least better than our second - hand imitations of others . Our understand- ing ( such as it is and must remain to be good for any . thing ) is ...
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... style , and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach , and so obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose * [ Edition of 1570 , pp . 143-4 . ] " The smiler with the knife under his cloke ...
... style , and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach , and so obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose * [ Edition of 1570 , pp . 143-4 . ] " The smiler with the knife under his cloke ...
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... style , and an easy flow in the numbers . In a word , that chastity , correctness , and gravity of style , which are so essential to tragedy , and which all the tragic poets who followed , not excepting Shakspeare himself , either ...
... style , and an easy flow in the numbers . In a word , that chastity , correctness , and gravity of style , which are so essential to tragedy , and which all the tragic poets who followed , not excepting Shakspeare himself , either ...
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... style of this author , which is extremely sweet and flowing , should have been the butt of ridicule to his contemporaries , particularly Drayton , who compliments Sidney as the author that " Did first reduce Our tongue from Lyly's ...
... style of this author , which is extremely sweet and flowing , should have been the butt of ridicule to his contemporaries , particularly Drayton , who compliments Sidney as the author that " Did first reduce Our tongue from Lyly's ...
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