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... survivals of a ruder and feebler stage of work ; they cannot hold their own in the new order with even such discordant effect of incongruous excellence and inharmonious beauty as belongs to the death - 34 A Study of Shakespeare .
... survivals of a ruder and feebler stage of work ; they cannot hold their own in the new order with even such discordant effect of incongruous excellence and inharmonious beauty as belongs to the death - 34 A Study of Shakespeare .
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... beauty . In the single tragedy , and in one of the two histories , we may say that rhyme fights hard for life , but is undeniably worsted ; that is , they contain as to quantity a large proportion of rhymed verse , but as to quality the ...
... beauty . In the single tragedy , and in one of the two histories , we may say that rhyme fights hard for life , but is undeniably worsted ; that is , they contain as to quantity a large proportion of rhymed verse , but as to quality the ...
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... beauty which vivify and diversify the scene of Plautus as reproduced by the art of Shakespeare . In the next generation so noble a poet as Rotrou , whom perhaps it might not be inaccurate to call the French Marlowe , and who had ( what ...
... beauty which vivify and diversify the scene of Plautus as reproduced by the art of Shakespeare . In the next generation so noble a poet as Rotrou , whom perhaps it might not be inaccurate to call the French Marlowe , and who had ( what ...
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... beauty as in the former , of such exalted eloquence as in the latter of these plays ; there is an even sweetness , a simple equality of grace in thought and language which keeps the whole poem in tune , written as it is in a subdued key ...
... beauty as in the former , of such exalted eloquence as in the latter of these plays ; there is an even sweetness , a simple equality of grace in thought and language which keeps the whole poem in tune , written as it is in a subdued key ...
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... Beauty " and " Good Night , " or the passably light and lively stray of song on " crabbed age and youth . " I need not say that those three exceptions are the stolen and garbled work of Marlowe and of Barn- field 64 A Study of Shakespeare .
... Beauty " and " Good Night , " or the passably light and lively stray of song on " crabbed age and youth . " I need not say that those three exceptions are the stolen and garbled work of Marlowe and of Barn- field 64 A Study of Shakespeare .
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