Shakspere: His Times and Contemporariesauthor, 1861 - 80 pages |
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... fame ; Poet of every clime , and class , and age , The worshipp'd wonder of the world's wide stage ! What pen can write , what tongue can speak of him In terms that seem not lustreless and dim ? Yet turn we ever wondering to the past ...
... fame ; Poet of every clime , and class , and age , The worshipp'd wonder of the world's wide stage ! What pen can write , what tongue can speak of him In terms that seem not lustreless and dim ? Yet turn we ever wondering to the past ...
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... fame of Portugal , without her Camöens ; of France , without her Racine , and Rabelais , and Voltaire ; of Germany , without her Martin Luther , her Goëthe , and her Schiller ? Nay , what were the nations of old , without their ...
... fame of Portugal , without her Camöens ; of France , without her Racine , and Rabelais , and Voltaire ; of Germany , without her Martin Luther , her Goëthe , and her Schiller ? Nay , what were the nations of old , without their ...
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... Akenside . That he was their elder Brother , not their Parent , is evident from the fact of the very few direct imitations of him to be found in their writings . imperishable fame required that every other writer of his day SHAKSPERE: ...
... Akenside . That he was their elder Brother , not their Parent , is evident from the fact of the very few direct imitations of him to be found in their writings . imperishable fame required that every other writer of his day SHAKSPERE: ...
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George Markham Tweddell. imperishable fame required that every other writer of his day should be covered with " the fat weed That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf . " Hamlet , act i . , scene 5 . To me it seems greater praise , as well ...
George Markham Tweddell. imperishable fame required that every other writer of his day should be covered with " the fat weed That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf . " Hamlet , act i . , scene 5 . To me it seems greater praise , as well ...
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... fame whose first vibrations he was attempting . He no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to him generous , and esteemed himself , out of all question , the better poet of the two . " The few facts that have been ascertained ...
... fame whose first vibrations he was attempting . He no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to him generous , and esteemed himself , out of all question , the better poet of the two . " The few facts that have been ascertained ...
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