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Page 77
... ideas of the pastoral character , by carrying his thoughts back to the age in which the care of herds and flocks was the employment of the wisest and greatest men . These reasoners seem to have been led into their hypothesis , by ...
... ideas of the pastoral character , by carrying his thoughts back to the age in which the care of herds and flocks was the employment of the wisest and greatest men . These reasoners seem to have been led into their hypothesis , by ...
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... ideas of dignity in one age , are banished from elegant writing or conversation in another , because they are in time debased by vulgar mouths , and can be no longer heard without the involuntary recollection of unpleasing images . When ...
... ideas of dignity in one age , are banished from elegant writing or conversation in another , because they are in time debased by vulgar mouths , and can be no longer heard without the involuntary recollection of unpleasing images . When ...
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... ideas of another . Shakespeare knew what the queen , if the story be true , seems not to have known , that by any ... idea , seems not to have been able to give Falstaff all his former power of enter- tainment . This comedy is remarkable ...
... ideas of another . Shakespeare knew what the queen , if the story be true , seems not to have known , that by any ... idea , seems not to have been able to give Falstaff all his former power of enter- tainment . This comedy is remarkable ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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