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... honour of Shakespeare was " dark as hell , " seeing " it had bay- windows transparent as barricadoes , and the clear- stories towards the south - north were as lustrous as ebcny . " These are not the most besetting dangers of more ...
... honour of Shakespeare was " dark as hell , " seeing " it had bay- windows transparent as barricadoes , and the clear- stories towards the south - north were as lustrous as ebcny . " These are not the most besetting dangers of more ...
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... honour of having em- broidered on the naked old canvas of comic action those flowers of elegiac 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 ...
... honour of having em- broidered on the naked old canvas of comic action those flowers of elegiac 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 ...
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... honoured friend Dr. Grosart could find the means to put a crown upon the achieve- ments of his learning and a seal upon the obligations of our gratitude by the one inestimable boon long hoped for against hoping , and as yet but “ a ...
... honoured friend Dr. Grosart could find the means to put a crown upon the achieve- ments of his learning and a seal upon the obligations of our gratitude by the one inestimable boon long hoped for against hoping , and as yet but “ a ...
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... honour . But , with all reverence for that memory , I must confess that I cannot bring myself to believe it . Any explanation appears to me more probable than this . Considering with what care every relic of his work was once and again ...
... honour . But , with all reverence for that memory , I must confess that I cannot bring myself to believe it . Any explanation appears to me more probable than this . Considering with what care every relic of his work was once and again ...
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... honour to Shakespeare , has led him to attribute to his original some quality foreign to the text , or to question the authenticity of what for love of his author he might not wish to find in it . Thus he would reject the main part of ...
... honour to Shakespeare , has led him to attribute to his original some quality foreign to the text , or to question the authenticity of what for love of his author he might not wish to find in it . Thus he would reject the main part of ...
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