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... tion to say that Johnson's criticisms are such as might have been made by a foreigner of great ability and immense experience who was acquainted with Shakespeare solely in a prose translation . Yet , after all , though it is true that ...
... tion to say that Johnson's criticisms are such as might have been made by a foreigner of great ability and immense experience who was acquainted with Shakespeare solely in a prose translation . Yet , after all , though it is true that ...
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... tion . Certainly in the eyes of the great majority of his contemporaries Donne was by far the most eminent writer of his age - which was the age of Bacon and Shakespeare . The first edition of his poems appeared in 1633 , two years ...
... tion . Certainly in the eyes of the great majority of his contemporaries Donne was by far the most eminent writer of his age - which was the age of Bacon and Shakespeare . The first edition of his poems appeared in 1633 , two years ...
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... tion which he effected , the strength and the folly of the hidebound traditions which he destroyed - these facts can only be thoroughly appreciated after one has explored the forgotten versifiers of the close of the eighteenth century ...
... tion which he effected , the strength and the folly of the hidebound traditions which he destroyed - these facts can only be thoroughly appreciated after one has explored the forgotten versifiers of the close of the eighteenth century ...
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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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