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... moral odious- ness , harrows up the mind unmercifully , and tortures even our senses by the exhibition of the most insupportable and hateful spectacles , is one of much greater importance . He has never , in fact , varnished over wild ...
... moral odious- ness , harrows up the mind unmercifully , and tortures even our senses by the exhibition of the most insupportable and hateful spectacles , is one of much greater importance . He has never , in fact , varnished over wild ...
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... moral sense in the proud beauty of this last image , a rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well - known passage beginning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she re- strained , and prayed me oft forbearance , " sets a keener edge upon it by ...
... moral sense in the proud beauty of this last image , a rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well - known passage beginning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she re- strained , and prayed me oft forbearance , " sets a keener edge upon it by ...
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... morality . We may allude here to the opening of the scene in which Bellarius instructs the young princes to pay their orisons to heaven : " See , boys ! this gate Instructs you how t'adore the Heav'ns ; and bows you To morning's holy ...
... morality . We may allude here to the opening of the scene in which Bellarius instructs the young princes to pay their orisons to heaven : " See , boys ! this gate Instructs you how t'adore the Heav'ns ; and bows you To morning's holy ...
Page 27
... moral it conveys has a closer application to the concerns of human life than that of almost any other of Shakespear's plays . " It comes directly home to the bosoms and business of men . " The pathos in Lear is indeed more dreadful and ...
... moral it conveys has a closer application to the concerns of human life than that of almost any other of Shakespear's plays . " It comes directly home to the bosoms and business of men . " The pathos in Lear is indeed more dreadful and ...
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... moral good or evil , or rather with a decided preference of the latter , because it falls more readily in with his favourite propensity , gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions . He is quite or nearly as in ...
... moral good or evil , or rather with a decided preference of the latter , because it falls more readily in with his favourite propensity , gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions . He is quite or nearly as in ...
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