English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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... character in all plays , even without the poet's care , will have ad- vantage of all the others ; and that the design of the whole drama will chiefly depend on it . But this hinders not that there may be more shining characters in the ...
... character in all plays , even without the poet's care , will have ad- vantage of all the others ; and that the design of the whole drama will chiefly depend on it . But this hinders not that there may be more shining characters in the ...
Page 380
... character would be a monster ) but he was to have so much of each as was requisite to form his superior character . Each virtue in its per- fection is exemplified in its own knight : they are all , in a due degree , concentred in Prince ...
... character would be a monster ) but he was to have so much of each as was requisite to form his superior character . Each virtue in its per- fection is exemplified in its own knight : they are all , in a due degree , concentred in Prince ...
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... character of a Presbyterian , whose em- blem is the wolf , is not very heroically majestic : More haughty than the rest , the wolfish race Appear with belly gaunt and famish'd face : Never was so deform'd a beast of grace . His ragged ...
... character of a Presbyterian , whose em- blem is the wolf , is not very heroically majestic : More haughty than the rest , the wolfish race Appear with belly gaunt and famish'd face : Never was so deform'd a beast of grace . His ragged ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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