Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake - 1 speare's plays are unfit for stage ...
... verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake - 1 speare's plays are unfit for stage ...
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... verse . In short , one should criticise along the lines indicated by the classi- fication and not abjure all preceding labour and knowledge . With regard to another theme , it is most important of all that a student should learn to ...
... verse . In short , one should criticise along the lines indicated by the classi- fication and not abjure all preceding labour and knowledge . With regard to another theme , it is most important of all that a student should learn to ...
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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . The antiperistasis of age More enflam'd thy amorous rage . In the following verses we have an allusion to a 48 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . The antiperistasis of age More enflam'd thy amorous rage . In the following verses we have an allusion to a 48 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... verses : In everything there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ...
... verses : In everything there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ...
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