Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... look out of themselves to see what they should be ; they sought for truth and nature , and found it in themselves . There was no tinsel , and but little art ; they were not the spoilt children of affectation and refinement , but a bold ...
... look out of themselves to see what they should be ; they sought for truth and nature , and found it in themselves . There was no tinsel , and but little art ; they were not the spoilt children of affectation and refinement , but a bold ...
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... look about it , startled by the light of our unexpected discoveries , and the noise we made . about them . Strange error of our infatuated self - love ! Because the clothes we remember to have seen worn when we were children are now out ...
... look about it , startled by the light of our unexpected discoveries , and the noise we made . about them . Strange error of our infatuated self - love ! Because the clothes we remember to have seen worn when we were children are now out ...
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... ; for there is no time more populous of intel- lect , or more prolific of intellectual wealth , than the one we are speaking of Shakespear did not look upon him- self in this light , as a sort of monster 8 General View of the Subject .
... ; for there is no time more populous of intel- lect , or more prolific of intellectual wealth , than the one we are speaking of Shakespear did not look upon him- self in this light , as a sort of monster 8 General View of the Subject .
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... look forward to it as any par- ticular subject of exultation : the poor peasant , who can only contrive to treat himself to a joint of meat on a Sunday , considers it as an event in the week . So , in the old Cambridge comedy of the ...
... look forward to it as any par- ticular subject of exultation : the poor peasant , who can only contrive to treat himself to a joint of meat on a Sunday , considers it as an event in the week . So , in the old Cambridge comedy of the ...
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... look not so fierce on me ! Adders and serpents , let me breathe a while ! Come not , Lucifer ! Ugly hell , gape not ! I'll burn my books ! Oh ! Mephistopheles . " * Perhaps the finest trait in the whole play , and that which softens and ...
... look not so fierce on me ! Adders and serpents , let me breathe a while ! Come not , Lucifer ! Ugly hell , gape not ! I'll burn my books ! Oh ! Mephistopheles . " * Perhaps the finest trait in the whole play , and that which softens and ...
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