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... writers ; but from the treasures of their critical and historical scholarship , from the acute and strenuous exercise of the energies of their thought , from the ardour of study and rning , have estion -can- truck e get afety ank- 12 A ...
... writers ; but from the treasures of their critical and historical scholarship , from the acute and strenuous exercise of the energies of their thought , from the ardour of study and rning , have estion -can- truck e get afety ank- 12 A ...
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... writer believes to be certain demonstrable truths as to the progress and deve- lopment of 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 ...
... writer believes to be certain demonstrable truths as to the progress and deve- lopment of 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 ...
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... writer must himself have felt the scene of the roses to be pitched in a truer key than the noble scene of parting between the old hero and his son on the verge of desperate battle and certain death . This is the last and loftiest ...
... writer must himself have felt the scene of the roses to be pitched in a truer key than the noble scene of parting between the old hero and his son on the verge of desperate battle and certain death . This is the last and loftiest ...
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... writer of certain passages in Venus and Adonis could not fall before his genius or his judgment was full - grown . To invent an earlier play on the subject and imagine this scene a surviving fragment , a floating waif of that imaginary ...
... writer of certain passages in Venus and Adonis could not fall before his genius or his judgment was full - grown . To invent an earlier play on the subject and imagine this scene a surviving fragment , a floating waif of that imaginary ...
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... writer of the " great age , 1 It is not the least of Lord Macaulay's offences against art that he should have contributed the temporary weight of his influence as a critic to the support of so ignorant and absurd a tradition of criti ...
... writer of the " great age , 1 It is not the least of Lord Macaulay's offences against art that he should have contributed the temporary weight of his influence as a critic to the support of so ignorant and absurd a tradition of criti ...
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