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... style and har- mony in the successive works of Shakespeare must in some indefinite degree be perceptible to the youngest as to the oldest , to the dullest as to the keenest of Shakespearean students . But to trace and verify the various ...
... style and har- mony in the successive works of Shakespeare must in some indefinite degree be perceptible to the youngest as to the oldest , to the dullest as to the keenest of Shakespearean students . But to trace and verify the various ...
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... style , the outer and the inner changes of 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 ...
... style , the outer and the inner changes of 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 ...
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... style , the greater or lesser proportion of qualities proper to the earlier or the later stage of thought and writing . At one time I was inclined to think the whole catalogue more accurately divisible into four classes ; but the line ...
... style , the greater or lesser proportion of qualities proper to the earlier or the later stage of thought and writing . At one time I was inclined to think the whole catalogue more accurately divisible into four classes ; but the line ...
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... style , discernible in the successive periods of Shake- speare's work ; to study the phases of mind , the changes of tone , the passage or progress from an old manner to a new , the reversion or relapse from a later to an earlier habit ...
... style , discernible in the successive periods of Shake- speare's work ; to study the phases of mind , the changes of tone , the passage or progress from an old manner to a new , the reversion or relapse from a later to an earlier habit ...
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... 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 which it was actually produced , and in which it stands out ...
... 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 which it was actually produced , and in which it stands out ...
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