Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... whole , however , and without prejudice to new arrangements in the course of future decorations , he is content that it should be as it is . And so , reader , for the present are we . Let us enter to- gether , then , if it seems worth ...
... whole , however , and without prejudice to new arrangements in the course of future decorations , he is content that it should be as it is . And so , reader , for the present are we . Let us enter to- gether , then , if it seems worth ...
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... whole size of the head is perhaps less , but the proportion of the face to the head is greater , and there is more of that determinate form which arises from prominence and strength in the bony structure . The features are individually ...
... whole size of the head is perhaps less , but the proportion of the face to the head is greater , and there is more of that determinate form which arises from prominence and strength in the bony structure . The features are individually ...
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... Sonnets in detail here , nor to tell the story which they involve as a whole . We will indicate generally , however , the impression which , we think , a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any 12 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... Sonnets in detail here , nor to tell the story which they involve as a whole . We will indicate generally , however , the impression which , we think , a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any 12 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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... whole sensation of the supernatural . Although we cannot , therefore , in honest keeping with popular language , call Shakespeare , as Ulrici does , the most Christian of poets , we believe him to have been the man in modern times , who ...
... whole sensation of the supernatural . Although we cannot , therefore , in honest keeping with popular language , call Shakespeare , as Ulrici does , the most Christian of poets , we believe him to have been the man in modern times , who ...
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... whole of human nature in all its tendencies , in all its heights and depths , and that , in fact , there remains for him , the aftercomer , nothing more to do . And how could one get courage to put pen to paper , if one were conscious ...
... whole of human nature in all its tendencies , in all its heights and depths , and that , in fact , there remains for him , the aftercomer , nothing more to do . And how could one get courage to put pen to paper , if one were conscious ...
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