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... possible students ; nor will a mere list of double or single , masculine or feminine termina- tions discoverable in a given amount of verse from the same quarter prove of much use or benefit to an adult reader of common intelligence ...
... possible students ; nor will a mere list of double or single , masculine or feminine termina- tions discoverable in a given amount of verse from the same quarter prove of much use or benefit to an adult reader of common intelligence ...
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... possible to show that the work of Shakespeare is naturally divisible into classes which may serve us to distin- guish and determine as by landmarks the several stages or periods of his mind and art . Of these the three chief periods or ...
... possible to show that the work of Shakespeare is naturally divisible into classes which may serve us to distin- guish and determine as by landmarks the several stages or periods of his mind and art . Of these the three chief periods or ...
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... possible or probable date of the first appearance of this play or of that on the stage ; and it is not unlikely that the order of succession here adopted or suggested may not always coincide with the chronological order of production ...
... possible or probable date of the first appearance of this play or of that on the stage ; and it is not unlikely that the order of succession here adopted or suggested may not always coincide with the chronological order of production ...
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... possible partnership with Fletcher , a possible inter- polation by Jonson ; but in the descent from these to the alleged adulteration of the text by Middle- ton and Rowley we have surely sounded the very lowest depth of folly attainable ...
... possible partnership with Fletcher , a possible inter- polation by Jonson ; but in the descent from these to the alleged adulteration of the text by Middle- ton and Rowley we have surely sounded the very lowest depth of folly attainable ...
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... possible , but can neither be affirmed nor denied with any profit in default of the least fragment of historic or traditional evi- dence . Any attempt to verify the imaginary touch of his hand in plays of whose history we know no more ...
... possible , but can neither be affirmed nor denied with any profit in default of the least fragment of historic or traditional evi- dence . Any attempt to verify the imaginary touch of his hand in plays of whose history we know no more ...
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