Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... history by a number of great men , famous in different ways , and whose names have come down to us with unblemished honours : statesmen , warriors , divines , scholars , poets , and philosophers ; Raleigh , Drake , Coke , Hooker , and ...
... history by a number of great men , famous in different ways , and whose names have come down to us with unblemished honours : statesmen , warriors , divines , scholars , poets , and philosophers ; Raleigh , Drake , Coke , Hooker , and ...
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... history to which they rightfully belong , we only make use of their example to insult and degrade it still more beneath our own level . It is the present fashion to speak with veneration of old English literature ; but the homage we pay ...
... history to which they rightfully belong , we only make use of their example to insult and degrade it still more beneath our own level . It is the present fashion to speak with veneration of old English literature ; but the homage we pay ...
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... history of our own literature , and makes it in each successive age like a book sealed . The Greek and Roman classics are a sort of privileged text - books , the standing order of the day , in a University education , and leave little ...
... history of our own literature , and makes it in each successive age like a book sealed . The Greek and Roman classics are a sort of privileged text - books , the standing order of the day , in a University education , and leave little ...
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... history of this period a nervous masculine intellect . No levity , * This was Coverdale's version , printed abroad in 1535 , folio . — En , no feebleness , no indifference ; or , if there 12 General View of the Subject .
... history of this period a nervous masculine intellect . No levity , * This was Coverdale's version , printed abroad in 1535 , folio . — En , no feebleness , no indifference ; or , if there 12 General View of the Subject .
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... historical parts of the Old Testament , or the moral sentiments of the New , there is nothing like them in the power of exciting awe and ad- miration , or of riveting sympathy . We see what Milton has made of the account of the Creation ...
... historical parts of the Old Testament , or the moral sentiments of the New , there is nothing like them in the power of exciting awe and ad- miration , or of riveting sympathy . We see what Milton has made of the account of the Creation ...
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