The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 20Harper, 1908 |
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... Adonis , " " The Rape of Lucrece , " and the " Sonnets " ; for , while these unmistakably manifest both striking dramatic power and a copious rhetoric , the most majestic and terrible of his Tragedies exhibit , in the construction and ...
... Adonis , " " The Rape of Lucrece , " and the " Sonnets " ; for , while these unmistakably manifest both striking dramatic power and a copious rhetoric , the most majestic and terrible of his Tragedies exhibit , in the construction and ...
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... Adonis " : " Torches are made to light , jewels to wear , Dainties to taste , fresh beauty for the use , Herbs for their smell , and sappy plants to bear : Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse : Seeds spring from seeds and ...
... Adonis " : " Torches are made to light , jewels to wear , Dainties to taste , fresh beauty for the use , Herbs for their smell , and sappy plants to bear : Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse : Seeds spring from seeds and ...
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... Adonis " and " The Rape of Lucrece , " he manifests that ample command of language and that power of preserv- ing an almost hard and fast line between one character and another so conspicuous in his plays ; though it should be added ...
... Adonis " and " The Rape of Lucrece , " he manifests that ample command of language and that power of preserv- ing an almost hard and fast line between one character and another so conspicuous in his plays ; though it should be added ...
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... an appropriate and inexhaustible vocabulary . It is because in Shakespeare that combination is consummate , he is the greatest of all Poets . ALFRED AUSTIN . VENUS AND ADONIS ' Vilia miretur vulgus ; mihi flavus [ xxiii ] INTRODUCTION.
... an appropriate and inexhaustible vocabulary . It is because in Shakespeare that combination is consummate , he is the greatest of all Poets . ALFRED AUSTIN . VENUS AND ADONIS ' Vilia miretur vulgus ; mihi flavus [ xxiii ] INTRODUCTION.
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... Adonis . A revised and cor- rected version of the same translation of the elegy is placed on the lips of the char- acter called Ovid , at the close of the first scene of Ben Jonson's Poetaster , 1602 . Jonson was doubtless responsible ...
... Adonis . A revised and cor- rected version of the same translation of the elegy is placed on the lips of the char- acter called Ovid , at the close of the first scene of Ben Jonson's Poetaster , 1602 . Jonson was doubtless responsible ...
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