Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... judgments of the older school have been discredited or forgotten . The present volume shows that the eighteenth century knew many things which the nineteenth has rediscovered for itself . It is at least eighty years since most of these ...
... judgments of the older school have been discredited or forgotten . The present volume shows that the eighteenth century knew many things which the nineteenth has rediscovered for itself . It is at least eighty years since most of these ...
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... judgment of the public . " Above all I am pleased , " says the Guardian , " in observing that the Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the ...
... judgment of the public . " Above all I am pleased , " says the Guardian , " in observing that the Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the ...
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... the curious fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakespeare " ( Works , ed . Masson , iv . , p . 24 ) . 1 common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate INTRODUCTION xix.
... the curious fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakespeare " ( Works , ed . Masson , iv . , p . 24 ) . 1 common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate INTRODUCTION xix.
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David Nichol Smith. common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate much of what has been supposed to be the discovery of the romantic school . His Preface has received scant justice . There is no more convincing ...
David Nichol Smith. common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate much of what has been supposed to be the discovery of the romantic school . His Preface has received scant justice . There is no more convincing ...
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... judgment , and was more indebted to the Ancients than was commonly imagined . On the whole , however , Whalley's attitude was more reasonable than that of Upton or Grey , for he admitted that his list of parallel passages might not ...
... judgment , and was more indebted to the Ancients than was commonly imagined . On the whole , however , Whalley's attitude was more reasonable than that of Upton or Grey , for he admitted that his list of parallel passages might not ...
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