Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... story of Joseph and his Brethren , of Rachel and Laban , of Jacob's Dream , of Ruth and Boaz , the descriptions in the Book of Job , the deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt , or the account of their captivity and return from Babylon ...
... story of Joseph and his Brethren , of Rachel and Laban , of Jacob's Dream , of Ruth and Boaz , the descriptions in the Book of Job , the deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt , or the account of their captivity and return from Babylon ...
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... story , which is doubtless founded on fact , is to be found elsewhere . It occurs in the common - place book of Henry Oxenden , of Canterbury , 1647 , related as it is to be found ( copied from an early MS . memorandum ) in Mr. Dyce's ...
... story , which is doubtless founded on fact , is to be found elsewhere . It occurs in the common - place book of Henry Oxenden , of Canterbury , 1647 , related as it is to be found ( copied from an early MS . memorandum ) in Mr. Dyce's ...
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... story in both is classical , and the execution is for the most part elegant and simple . " There is often something that reminds one of the grace- ful communicativeness of Lucian or of Apuleius , from whom one of the stories is borrowed ...
... story in both is classical , and the execution is for the most part elegant and simple . " There is often something that reminds one of the grace- ful communicativeness of Lucian or of Apuleius , from whom one of the stories is borrowed ...
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... story which has taken a strange hold of my fancy , perhaps " out of my weakness and my melancholy ; " but for the satisfaction of the reader , I will quote the whole passage : " It is silly sooth , and dallies with the innocence of love ...
... story which has taken a strange hold of my fancy , perhaps " out of my weakness and my melancholy ; " but for the satisfaction of the reader , I will quote the whole passage : " It is silly sooth , and dallies with the innocence of love ...
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... story . Faustus , in his impatience to fulfil at once and for a moment , for a few short years , all the desires and conceptions of his soul , is willing to give in exchange his soul and body to the great enemy of mankind . Whatever he ...
... story . Faustus , in his impatience to fulfil at once and for a moment , for a few short years , all the desires and conceptions of his soul , is willing to give in exchange his soul and body to the great enemy of mankind . Whatever he ...
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