Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... tion . An ' evil and adulterous generation ' has been in all ages and countries the one marked out for intestine and internecine strife . That description is always ap- plicable to a revolutionary generation , whether or not it also ...
... tion . An ' evil and adulterous generation ' has been in all ages and countries the one marked out for intestine and internecine strife . That description is always ap- plicable to a revolutionary generation , whether or not it also ...
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... tion as any man ; and one who so far fulfilled those notions as to become a dramatist inferior only to Shak- speare . Let Ben Jonson himself speak , and in his pre- face to Volpone , ' tell us in his own noble prose , what he thought of ...
... tion as any man ; and one who so far fulfilled those notions as to become a dramatist inferior only to Shak- speare . Let Ben Jonson himself speak , and in his pre- face to Volpone , ' tell us in his own noble prose , what he thought of ...
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... tion of the degradation of a great soul , because in it , here and there , occur passages of the old sweetness and grandeur , disjecta membra poetæ such as these , which , even though addressed to James , are perfect : - - 3rd Gypsy ...
... tion of the degradation of a great soul , because in it , here and there , occur passages of the old sweetness and grandeur , disjecta membra poetæ such as these , which , even though addressed to James , are perfect : - - 3rd Gypsy ...
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... tion . It is said , ' the grossness of the old play - writers was their misfortune , not their crime . It was the fashion of the age . It is not our fashion , certainly ; but they meant no harm by it . The age was a free- spoken one ...
... tion . It is said , ' the grossness of the old play - writers was their misfortune , not their crime . It was the fashion of the age . It is not our fashion , certainly ; but they meant no harm by it . The age was a free- spoken one ...
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... tion detestable ribaldry , ' ' a loathsome sooterkin , en- gendered of filth and dulness , ' recommends them to the reader's supreme scorn and contempt , -with which feelings the reader will doubtless regard them ; but will also , if he ...
... tion detestable ribaldry , ' ' a loathsome sooterkin , en- gendered of filth and dulness , ' recommends them to the reader's supreme scorn and contempt , -with which feelings the reader will doubtless regard them ; but will also , if he ...
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