Specimens of English dramatic poetsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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Page xxi
... never left him while he lived . I have taken Canon Ainger's edition of the Letters and have filled four quarto pages with brief references to the literary allusions which appear in the corre- spondence during the ten years 1796-1806 ...
... never left him while he lived . I have taken Canon Ainger's edition of the Letters and have filled four quarto pages with brief references to the literary allusions which appear in the corre- spondence during the ten years 1796-1806 ...
Page xxii
... never read ' em . " And so on . In the next letter , commenting again on Southey's Joan of Arc he is " delighted , amazed . I had not presumed to expect any thing of such excellence from Southey . Why , the poem is alone sufficient to ...
... never read ' em . " And so on . In the next letter , commenting again on Southey's Joan of Arc he is " delighted , amazed . I had not presumed to expect any thing of such excellence from Southey . Why , the poem is alone sufficient to ...
Page xxvii
... never been written . Already , though we have not yet travelled to the foot of my first quarto page , we see very clearly where he is . He has discovered , as the Young Souls are always quick to do , the one or two recent Arrivals in ...
... never been written . Already , though we have not yet travelled to the foot of my first quarto page , we see very clearly where he is . He has discovered , as the Young Souls are always quick to do , the one or two recent Arrivals in ...
Page xxxi
... never saw but at one shop , and it is now gone ; but one of the editions of Dodsley contains about a fourth ( the best ) of his plays . . . . Marlowe's plays and poems are totally vanished ; only one edition of Dodsley retains one , and ...
... never saw but at one shop , and it is now gone ; but one of the editions of Dodsley contains about a fourth ( the best ) of his plays . . . . Marlowe's plays and poems are totally vanished ; only one edition of Dodsley retains one , and ...
Page xxxii
... never saw any beauties in Shakspeare . Longman is to print it , and be at all expense and risk , and I am to share the profits after all deductions ; i . e . a year or two hence I must pocket what they please to tell me is due to me ...
... never saw any beauties in Shakspeare . Longman is to print it , and be at all expense and risk , and I am to share the profits after all deductions ; i . e . a year or two hence I must pocket what they please to tell me is due to me ...
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