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... to be equally constant , and in- formed her of his purpose to win for her a name and fortune . This letter reached the lady ; but parental control was in those days a stern and real thing Shakspeare in Blackfriars . 13.
... to be equally constant , and in- formed her of his purpose to win for her a name and fortune . This letter reached the lady ; but parental control was in those days a stern and real thing Shakspeare in Blackfriars . 13.
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Henry Schütz Wilson. control was in those days a stern and real thing ; and vainly did fair Lettice hope to be allowed to wait till a poor suitor , rejected by her family , should win the for- tune already possessed by others who sought ...
Henry Schütz Wilson. control was in those days a stern and real thing ; and vainly did fair Lettice hope to be allowed to wait till a poor suitor , rejected by her family , should win the for- tune already possessed by others who sought ...
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... thing the world had done stood before them in the flesh . Shakspeare , then a little more than thirty years of age , was , as many great poets have been , singularly handsome in face and person . Master Herbert , basing his judg- ment ...
... thing the world had done stood before them in the flesh . Shakspeare , then a little more than thirty years of age , was , as many great poets have been , singularly handsome in face and person . Master Herbert , basing his judg- ment ...
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... . He had passed from the lover into . the soldier : the last of the seven ages which he was destined to reach . He had done the best thing for the cure or the lessening of a great youthful sorrow Shakspeare in Blackfriars . 25.
... . He had passed from the lover into . the soldier : the last of the seven ages which he was destined to reach . He had done the best thing for the cure or the lessening of a great youthful sorrow Shakspeare in Blackfriars . 25.
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... things at the very highest range of human faculty , and is , at the same time , almost perfect in physique . For ever motionless , yet ever gliding , Kaulbach has depicted him for us , in the prime and glory of his early manhood , as he ...
... things at the very highest range of human faculty , and is , at the same time , almost perfect in physique . For ever motionless , yet ever gliding , Kaulbach has depicted him for us , in the prime and glory of his early manhood , as he ...
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