Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like an Egyptian pyramid over humbler obelisks , stands the name of WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : a name that will reverberate through the ...
... amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like an Egyptian pyramid over humbler obelisks , stands the name of WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : a name that will reverberate through the ...
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... amongst the Israelites- " from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people . " " " * " One of those giant minds , who , from the mass Of millions , soar aloft , and spurn control . · • • Born to ascend superior over ...
... amongst the Israelites- " from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people . " " " * " One of those giant minds , who , from the mass Of millions , soar aloft , and spurn control . · • • Born to ascend superior over ...
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... amongst which were turnips , carrots , salads , apricots , melons , and currants ; and the cultivation of hops and flax were not neglected . The old dungeon - like castles of the nobility now gave way to the more commodious halls or ...
... amongst which were turnips , carrots , salads , apricots , melons , and currants ; and the cultivation of hops and flax were not neglected . The old dungeon - like castles of the nobility now gave way to the more commodious halls or ...
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... amongst the people . If men will break the laws of nature , they can never do it with impunity there are blessings for obe- dience , but pains and penalties , from which no repentance can save us , whenever we rebel . Some day ...
... amongst the people . If men will break the laws of nature , they can never do it with impunity there are blessings for obe- dience , but pains and penalties , from which no repentance can save us , whenever we rebel . Some day ...
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... amongst the great and powerful partisans of the king . The poor , now left without any legal support , became vagabonds and thieves ; and as neither reducing many to slavery , nor hanging others , could abate the evil , ( for the cause ...
... amongst the great and powerful partisans of the king . The poor , now left without any legal support , became vagabonds and thieves ; and as neither reducing many to slavery , nor hanging others , could abate the evil , ( for the cause ...
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