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... contemporaries is disparaging : " [ Shakespeare's ] works , in comparison of those that are more finished and regular [ are as ] an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture , compared with a neat modern building . The latter is ...
... contemporaries is disparaging : " [ Shakespeare's ] works , in comparison of those that are more finished and regular [ are as ] an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture , compared with a neat modern building . The latter is ...
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... contemporaries and has furnished material for many a subsequent monograph , was a long and steady if unexpressed development of a literary philosophy . The Bowles letters have too often been accepted as mere hoaxes of the poet in a ...
... contemporaries and has furnished material for many a subsequent monograph , was a long and steady if unexpressed development of a literary philosophy . The Bowles letters have too often been accepted as mere hoaxes of the poet in a ...
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William Jonathan Calvert. Byron laughs at much upon which his contemporaries set store , it is in order that he may destroy abuses by ridicule . " 11 But ridicule is not the life of the poem . The epic is made up now of narrative , now ...
William Jonathan Calvert. Byron laughs at much upon which his contemporaries set store , it is in order that he may destroy abuses by ridicule . " 11 But ridicule is not the life of the poem . The epic is made up now of narrative , now ...
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