Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... true masters of the romantic drama arose , they found the people prepared for the transformation of the ridiculous into the poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under ...
... true masters of the romantic drama arose , they found the people prepared for the transformation of the ridiculous into the poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under ...
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... true history be taken in hand , it is made like our shadows , longest at the rising and fall of the sun ; shortest of all at high noon . ” It has scarcely , we think , been noticed that the justly celebrated work of Sir Philip Sid- ney ...
... true history be taken in hand , it is made like our shadows , longest at the rising and fall of the sun ; shortest of all at high noon . ” It has scarcely , we think , been noticed that the justly celebrated work of Sir Philip Sid- ney ...
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... true which is false : So as the other artists , and especially the his- torian , affirming many things , can , in the cloudy knowledge of mankind , hardly escape from many lies : But the poet , as I said be- fore , never affirmeth , the ...
... true which is false : So as the other artists , and especially the his- torian , affirming many things , can , in the cloudy knowledge of mankind , hardly escape from many lies : But the poet , as I said be- fore , never affirmeth , the ...
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... true history ) most commonly unto such points as may best show the majesty of their pen in tragical speeches , or set the heroes agog with discourses of love , or paint a few antics to fit their own humours with scoffs and taunts , or ...
... true history ) most commonly unto such points as may best show the majesty of their pen in tragical speeches , or set the heroes agog with discourses of love , or paint a few antics to fit their own humours with scoffs and taunts , or ...
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... True Tragedy of Richard III . ' is the only other History , of which we possess a printed copy , that we can assign to the period before the first real dramatists . This old play is a work of higher pretension than ' The Famous ...
... True Tragedy of Richard III . ' is the only other History , of which we possess a printed copy , that we can assign to the period before the first real dramatists . This old play is a work of higher pretension than ' The Famous ...
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