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tragic : it stands on an equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity . All that I before wished was , not to admit that the former preponderated . He is highly inventive in comic situations and motives .
tragic : it stands on an equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity . All that I before wished was , not to admit that the former preponderated . He is highly inventive in comic situations and motives .
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If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in Cymbeline have to encounter the abrupt declivities of hill and valley : Touchstone and Audrey jog along a level path ...
If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in Cymbeline have to encounter the abrupt declivities of hill and valley : Touchstone and Audrey jog along a level path ...
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What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages , to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets can be opposed , displaying equal fancy and imagery .
What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages , to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets can be opposed , displaying equal fancy and imagery .
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| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Volume 205 of World's classics |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Contributor | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| Publisher | H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 May 2011 |
| Length | 287 pages |
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