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Page 79
... complete conventionality . The Arcadia pleased because it was steeped in the artificial atmosphere through which literature habitually presented itself to the ladies and gentlemen of Elizabeth's Court ; and when the literary atmosphere ...
... complete conventionality . The Arcadia pleased because it was steeped in the artificial atmosphere through which literature habitually presented itself to the ladies and gentlemen of Elizabeth's Court ; and when the literary atmosphere ...
Page 160
... complete and perfect code of the laws of poetry , if it were not for the poets ! If Racine had never written Phèdre , for instance , who would have ventured to deny that great tragedy and the rhyming couplet are , by their very nature ...
... complete and perfect code of the laws of poetry , if it were not for the poets ! If Racine had never written Phèdre , for instance , who would have ventured to deny that great tragedy and the rhyming couplet are , by their very nature ...
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... complete conviction . What a contrast this kind of versa- tility offers to some of our English actors , who , for so long as one can remember , have played along a single groove , endlessly repeating themselves with unwearied regularity ...
... complete conviction . What a contrast this kind of versa- tility offers to some of our English actors , who , for so long as one can remember , have played along a single groove , endlessly repeating themselves with unwearied regularity ...
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A New History of Rome Jan 2 1909 page | 13 |
Sir Henry Wotton Nov 23 1907 | 23 |
The Swan of Lichfield Dec 7 1907 | 33 |
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