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Page 134
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
Page 138
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
Page 223
... course I had mapped out for myself , and trying with my works to fill out the pattern I looked for . I think authors are unwise who do not read criticisms . It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by ...
... course I had mapped out for myself , and trying with my works to fill out the pattern I looked for . I think authors are unwise who do not read criticisms . It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by ...
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