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... manner as of matter , of method as of design , which may be discerned in the work of Shake- speare , The principle here adopted and the views here put forward have not been suddenly dis- covered or lightly taken up out of any desire to ...
... manner as of matter , of method as of design , which may be discerned in the work of Shake- speare , The principle here adopted and the views here put forward have not been suddenly dis- covered or lightly taken up out of any desire to ...
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... manner to a new , the reversion or relapse from a later to an earlier habit , which may assuredly be traced in the modulations of his varying verse , but can only be traced by ear and not by finger . I have busied myself with no ...
... manner to a new , the reversion or relapse from a later to an earlier habit , which may assuredly be traced in the modulations of his varying verse , but can only be traced by ear and not by finger . I have busied myself with no ...
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... manner , some passing return to his early lines of work and to habits of style since modified or abandoned . Such work , in part at least , may properly be said to belong rather to the earlier stage whose manner it resumes than to the ...
... manner , some passing return to his early lines of work and to habits of style since modified or abandoned . Such work , in part at least , may properly be said to belong rather to the earlier stage whose manner it resumes than to the ...
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... perfect unity and keeping the composition of this beautiful sketch may perhaps be said to mark a stage of advance , a new point of work attained , a faint but sensible change of manner , signalised by increased 48 A Study of Shakespeare .
... perfect unity and keeping the composition of this beautiful sketch may perhaps be said to mark a stage of advance , a new point of work attained , a faint but sensible change of manner , signalised by increased 48 A Study of Shakespeare .
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Algernon Charles Swinburne. faint but sensible change of manner , signalised by increased firmness of hand and clearness of outline . Slight and swift in execution as it is , few and simple as are the chords here struck of character and ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne. faint but sensible change of manner , signalised by increased firmness of hand and clearness of outline . Slight and swift in execution as it is , few and simple as are the chords here struck of character and ...
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