The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 25 |
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... father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief excel- lence is the consistency of his characters , I will ex- emplify the truth of this remark , by pointing out some master - strokes of this nature in the drama before us . The poet ...
... father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief excel- lence is the consistency of his characters , I will ex- emplify the truth of this remark , by pointing out some master - strokes of this nature in the drama before us . The poet ...
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... father was drowned in the late tempest , is exceedingly solemn and striking . He is sitting upon a solitary rock , and weeping over- against the place where he imagined his father was wrecked , when he suddenly hears with astonish- ment ...
... father was drowned in the late tempest , is exceedingly solemn and striking . He is sitting upon a solitary rock , and weeping over- against the place where he imagined his father was wrecked , when he suddenly hears with astonish- ment ...
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... father's aƫrial agents , is a stroke of nature worthy admiration : as are like- wise her intreaties to her father not to use him harshly , by the power of his art ; Why speaks my father so ungently ? This Is the third man that e'er I ...
... father's aƫrial agents , is a stroke of nature worthy admiration : as are like- wise her intreaties to her father not to use him harshly , by the power of his art ; Why speaks my father so ungently ? This Is the third man that e'er I ...
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... father was a wealthy farmer in Yorkshire ; and when I was near eighteen years of age , he brought me up to London , and put me apprentice to a considerable shopkeeper in the city . There was an aukward modest simplicity in my manner ...
... father was a wealthy farmer in Yorkshire ; and when I was near eighteen years of age , he brought me up to London , and put me apprentice to a considerable shopkeeper in the city . There was an aukward modest simplicity in my manner ...
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... father having allowed me thirty pounds a year for apparel and pocket - money , the greater part of which I had saved , I bespoke a suit of clothes of an eminent city taylor , with se- veral waistcoats and breeches , and two frocks for a ...
... father having allowed me thirty pounds a year for apparel and pocket - money , the greater part of which I had saved , I bespoke a suit of clothes of an eminent city taylor , with se- veral waistcoats and breeches , and two frocks for a ...
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