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... look for the arrival of his successor, could find no one at all answering the description, buta roundfaced man, in ashort black coat (likea shooting jacket) which hardly seemed to have been made forhim, but who seemed tobe talking at ...
... look for the arrival of his successor, could find no one at all answering the description, buta roundfaced man, in ashort black coat (likea shooting jacket) which hardly seemed to have been made forhim, but who seemed tobe talking at ...
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... good critic, he ought not to beabad poet. Such poetry as a man deliberately writes, such, and such onlywill he like. Dr.Johnson'sPreface tohis editionof Shakespeare looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits.
... good critic, he ought not to beabad poet. Such poetry as a man deliberately writes, such, and such onlywill he like. Dr.Johnson'sPreface tohis editionof Shakespeare looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits.
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William Hazlitt. looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits of his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology, and to weigh his excellences and defects in equal scales, stuffed fullof 'swelling figuresand sonorous ...
William Hazlitt. looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits of his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology, and to weigh his excellences and defects in equal scales, stuffed fullof 'swelling figuresand sonorous ...
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... look at theirfaces, except bystealthandat intervals.Nooneever hitthetrue perfection of the female character,thesense of weakness leaning on the strength of its affections for support, so well as Shakespeare—no one ever sowell painted ...
... look at theirfaces, except bystealthandat intervals.Nooneever hitthetrue perfection of the female character,thesense of weakness leaning on the strength of its affections for support, so well as Shakespeare—no one ever sowell painted ...
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... look'dst like a villain: now methinks, Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy, Whosemother was her painting, hath betrayed him: Poor I amstale, a garment out of fashion, And for I am richer thanto hang byth' walls,Imust beript; to ...
... look'dst like a villain: now methinks, Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy, Whosemother was her painting, hath betrayed him: Poor I amstale, a garment out of fashion, And for I am richer thanto hang byth' walls,Imust beript; to ...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: & Lectures on the English Poets William Hazlitt No preview available - 2015 |
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