Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... force and visible operation among the vulgar ( to say no more ) in the time of our authors . The appalling and wild chimeras of superstition and ignorance , " this bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in , " * were inwoven with ...
... force and visible operation among the vulgar ( to say no more ) in the time of our authors . The appalling and wild chimeras of superstition and ignorance , " this bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in , " * were inwoven with ...
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... force their way in the most impetuous eloquence . Our lan- guage is , as it were , to begin anew , and we make use of the most singular and boldest combinations to explain ourselves . Our wit comes from us , " like birdlime , brains and ...
... force their way in the most impetuous eloquence . Our lan- guage is , as it were , to begin anew , and we make use of the most singular and boldest combinations to explain ourselves . Our wit comes from us , " like birdlime , brains and ...
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... force of learning and study , and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse , for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) are the most incorrigible and insufferable of all others . The ...
... force of learning and study , and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse , for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) are the most incorrigible and insufferable of all others . The ...
Page 56
... forces them from the lips , and they are not the worse for being rare . Thus , in the play called A Woman Killed with Kindness , Wendoll , when reproached by Mrs. Frankford with his obliga . tions to her husband , interrupts her hastily ...
... forces them from the lips , and they are not the worse for being rare . Thus , in the play called A Woman Killed with Kindness , Wendoll , when reproached by Mrs. Frankford with his obliga . tions to her husband , interrupts her hastily ...
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... force and pathos ; but in the most critical parts , the author frequently breaks off or flags without any apparent reason but want of interest in his subject , and , further , the best and most affecting situations and bursts of feeling ...
... force and pathos ; but in the most critical parts , the author frequently breaks off or flags without any apparent reason but want of interest in his subject , and , further , the best and most affecting situations and bursts of feeling ...
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