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by William Shakespeare - 1838 - 926 pages
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...misrepresented, and language is depraved. 15nt love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no greater their times. In beauty, that of favour is more than...cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of life. have nothing charncteristical : but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that nny but one side of a matter ; our views are not extended to all that has a connexion bo aseigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing charaeteristical...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Plays, and Poems ...

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, •nd and spoils ; The motions of his spirit a otheii I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker, because many...
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Nelson's Literature Readers, Book 2

Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it is under any other direction,...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 5

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no greater influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical: but, perhaps, though some may lie equally adapted to every person, it...
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...living world and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was 30 regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or...Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper 35 speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though...
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Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the ...

Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind....I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be f., assigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there were which have nothing characteristical...
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Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...great influence upon the sum of life, jit has little operation in the dramas of 'a poet, who jcaught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited ^only...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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