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... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer , are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any ...
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer , are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any ...
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... human nature . His ' drama is the mirror of life ' . He shows us human existence as it is , so that : he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may here be cured of his ...
... human nature . His ' drama is the mirror of life ' . He shows us human existence as it is , so that : he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may here be cured of his ...
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... human beings , the original parents of man- kind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude ... human reason can examine them , or human K * imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty MILTON 285.
... human beings , the original parents of man- kind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude ... human reason can examine them , or human K * imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty MILTON 285.
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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