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... land's freedom and the name of England's greatest writer was not an imaginary one . The " armoury " that was hung in " our halls " was not the breastplate and the helmet that our fathers wore at Agincourt . The " armoury to which the ...
... land's freedom and the name of England's greatest writer was not an imaginary one . The " armoury " that was hung in " our halls " was not the breastplate and the helmet that our fathers wore at Agincourt . The " armoury to which the ...
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... lands exhibits the stages in the progress of his universality in our own land . He first becomes the property of the highest and the most educated minds . They have acknowledged his influence at first timidly and suspiciously ; but the ...
... lands exhibits the stages in the progress of his universality in our own land . He first becomes the property of the highest and the most educated minds . They have acknowledged his influence at first timidly and suspiciously ; but the ...
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... land in the neighbourhood of Stratford , and we have no doubt that he himself farmed it . It was the custom for gentlemen to attend to all the details of the productive and commercial part of farming in Shakspere's day . It is nothing ...
... land in the neighbourhood of Stratford , and we have no doubt that he himself farmed it . It was the custom for gentlemen to attend to all the details of the productive and commercial part of farming in Shakspere's day . It is nothing ...
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... land in Willmecote , called Asbyes , and the crop upon the ground , " & c . She was further left the sum of six ... lands ) belonging to her father were in the inventory attached to his will valued at seventy - seven pounds eleven ...
... land in Willmecote , called Asbyes , and the crop upon the ground , " & c . She was further left the sum of six ... lands ) belonging to her father were in the inventory attached to his will valued at seventy - seven pounds eleven ...
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... lands and tenements , of good wealth and substance , 500 % . " Malone assumes that this is a fiction of the Heralds ... land ; exactly in the way which Harrison has described . Shakspere's youth was , in all probability , one of very ...
... lands and tenements , of good wealth and substance , 500 % . " Malone assumes that this is a fiction of the Heralds ... land ; exactly in the way which Harrison has described . Shakspere's youth was , in all probability , one of very ...
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