Shakspere: His Times and Contemporariesauthor, 1861 - 80 pages |
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Page vii
... whole edition of three thousand copies was soon disposed of , and the work has for some years been out of print . Taught , from my earliest infancy , by a beloved mother's lips , to venerate " the golden days of good Queen Bess " as the ...
... whole edition of three thousand copies was soon disposed of , and the work has for some years been out of print . Taught , from my earliest infancy , by a beloved mother's lips , to venerate " the golden days of good Queen Bess " as the ...
Page viii
... whole temple ? The world will be wiser hy - and - bye ; and that happy time prophesied by so many hopeful bards the " Millenium " of the Hebrew prophets and the " Good Time Coming " of our own spirit - moving poet , CHARLES MACKAY ...
... whole temple ? The world will be wiser hy - and - bye ; and that happy time prophesied by so many hopeful bards the " Millenium " of the Hebrew prophets and the " Good Time Coming " of our own spirit - moving poet , CHARLES MACKAY ...
Page 12
... whole human race ; and wherever human hearts are warmed with the " ruddy drops " of life -from the Arctic to the Antarctic circle - there will his delineations be found to be truthful . Because he has not drawn his Romans as mere Romans ...
... whole human race ; and wherever human hearts are warmed with the " ruddy drops " of life -from the Arctic to the Antarctic circle - there will his delineations be found to be truthful . Because he has not drawn his Romans as mere Romans ...
Page 13
... whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets , a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspere it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction ...
... whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets , a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspere it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction ...
Page 15
... whole career ; had every circumstance of his life been shrouded in the darkest obscurity - buried in oblivion , " deeper than did ever plummet sound ; " we could still have traced his gentle disposition and universal sympathies in each ...
... whole career ; had every circumstance of his life been shrouded in the darkest obscurity - buried in oblivion , " deeper than did ever plummet sound ; " we could still have traced his gentle disposition and universal sympathies in each ...
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