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... passing ; and even if we get none sure or strong enough to steer by in safety towards any actual port of belief , we may thank- fully enjoy the new knowledge and the fresh illustration supplied by such labours as those of the editor of ...
... passing ; and even if we get none sure or strong enough to steer by in safety towards any actual port of belief , we may thank- fully enjoy the new knowledge and the fresh illustration supplied by such labours as those of the editor of ...
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... 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 later stage at ...
... 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 later stage at ...
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... passing epithet or a single trope . From this sample it might seem that the main difficulty must be to detect anywhere the sign- manual of Shakespeare , even in the best passages of the revised play . On the other hand , it has not ...
... passing epithet or a single trope . From this sample it might seem that the main difficulty must be to detect anywhere the sign- manual of Shakespeare , even in the best passages of the revised play . On the other hand , it has not ...
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... passing touch of the reviser's hand is here also a noticeable mark of invigoration and improvement . But King Henry V. , we may fairly say , is hardly less than transformed . Not that it has been recast after the fashion of Hamlet , or ...
... passing touch of the reviser's hand is here also a noticeable mark of invigoration and improvement . But King Henry V. , we may fairly say , is hardly less than transformed . Not that it has been recast after the fashion of Hamlet , or ...
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... passing errand of no unnatural devotion to the shrine of Venus Pandemos . When , however , we turn from the raw rough sketch to the enriched and ennobled version of the present play we find it in this its better shape more properly ...
... passing errand of no unnatural devotion to the shrine of Venus Pandemos . When , however , we turn from the raw rough sketch to the enriched and ennobled version of the present play we find it in this its better shape more properly ...
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