Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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... woman and in Shakespeare- that not only the honour of the one sex , but the improvement and the happiness of both , are interested in their studying , and causing to be studied , the Shakespearian personations of such an artist , so ...
... woman and in Shakespeare- that not only the honour of the one sex , but the improvement and the happiness of both , are interested in their studying , and causing to be studied , the Shakespearian personations of such an artist , so ...
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... woman - inde- pendently even of that maternal relation in which the drama constantly places her before us . That Constance , in the poet's conception , is of graceful as well as noble person , we are not left to infer merely from the ...
... woman - inde- pendently even of that maternal relation in which the drama constantly places her before us . That Constance , in the poet's conception , is of graceful as well as noble person , we are not left to infer merely from the ...
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... woman- most of all in a sovereign princess on so public an occasion . Again , in all her exclamations on the betrayal of her cause by her selfish allies , we find , indeed , all the sensitive and intellectual widow and mother , Oppress ...
... woman- most of all in a sovereign princess on so public an occasion . Again , in all her exclamations on the betrayal of her cause by her selfish allies , we find , indeed , all the sensitive and intellectual widow and mother , Oppress ...
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... woman , betrayed by her own rash confidence . " Generous she is ; but where is the rashness of her confidence ? What better resource have she and her son , than to trust in the solemn protestations which the potentates best able to ...
... woman , betrayed by her own rash confidence . " Generous she is ; but where is the rashness of her confidence ? What better resource have she and her son , than to trust in the solemn protestations which the potentates best able to ...
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... woman habitually sarcastic ; and she seems to have fallen somewhat into the same error which we have pointed out in Mrs. Jameson's criticism , of confounding with mere frenzy the awful poetry that bursts from the tortured heart of the ...
... woman habitually sarcastic ; and she seems to have fallen somewhat into the same error which we have pointed out in Mrs. Jameson's criticism , of confounding with mere frenzy the awful poetry that bursts from the tortured heart of the ...
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