Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... play , A Mad World , my Masters , † is hardly yet obsolete ; and we are pretty much the same Bedlam still , perhaps a little better managed , like the real one , and with more care and humanity shown to the patients ! Lastly , to ...
... play , A Mad World , my Masters , † is hardly yet obsolete ; and we are pretty much the same Bedlam still , perhaps a little better managed , like the real one , and with more care and humanity shown to the patients ! Lastly , to ...
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... play is a very pleasing transcript of old manners and sentiment . It is full of sweetness and point , of Attic salt and the honey of Hymettus . The following song given to Apelles would not disgrace the mouth of the prince of painters ...
... play is a very pleasing transcript of old manners and sentiment . It is full of sweetness and point , of Attic salt and the honey of Hymettus . The following song given to Apelles would not disgrace the mouth of the prince of painters ...
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... play might be set down without injustice as " pue - fellow " to that . I should think Mar- lowe has a much fairer ... plays ; and the business of the plot is carried on in much the same revolting manner , by making the nearest friends ...
... play might be set down without injustice as " pue - fellow " to that . I should think Mar- lowe has a much fairer ... plays ; and the business of the plot is carried on in much the same revolting manner , by making the nearest friends ...
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... play furnishes frequent instances of it . There are a number of single lines that seem struck out in the heat of a ... Plays , 1816 , i . 168–69 . are the same as those in King John- " And Christopher Marlowe . 51.
... play furnishes frequent instances of it . There are a number of single lines that seem struck out in the heat of a ... Plays , 1816 , i . 168–69 . are the same as those in King John- " And Christopher Marlowe . 51.
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... play . It is written with few offences against the common rules , and in a succession of smooth and flowing lines . The poet , however , suo- ceeds less in the voluptuous and effeminate descriptions which he here attempts , than in the ...
... play . It is written with few offences against the common rules , and in a succession of smooth and flowing lines . The poet , however , suo- ceeds less in the voluptuous and effeminate descriptions which he here attempts , than in the ...
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