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... passage . The change has been universally adopted ; but modern scholarship has now shown that in Elizabethan English the word ' scorch ' was actually used as a variant of ' scotch ' , so that , after all , there was no need of any ...
... passage . The change has been universally adopted ; but modern scholarship has now shown that in Elizabethan English the word ' scorch ' was actually used as a variant of ' scotch ' , so that , after all , there was no need of any ...
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... passage pays a high tribute to his powers : ' Most of the really difficult passages in Shakespeare are obscure not from the rarity of the words employed , but from the confused and rapid syntax . Johnson's strong grasp of the main ...
... passage pays a high tribute to his powers : ' Most of the really difficult passages in Shakespeare are obscure not from the rarity of the words employed , but from the confused and rapid syntax . Johnson's strong grasp of the main ...
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... passage in the sonnets : ' Yet his memory must not be so flattered that his virtues and good inclinations may be ... passages such as these ; they merely show that a strong prima facie case can be made out in favour of the Pem- broke ...
... passage in the sonnets : ' Yet his memory must not be so flattered that his virtues and good inclinations may be ... passages such as these ; they merely show that a strong prima facie case can be made out in favour of the Pem- broke ...
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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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