The Beauties of Shakspeare, Regularly Selected from Each Play: With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsJ. Locken, 1830 - 345 pages |
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... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them down to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant and fustian ...
... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them down to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant and fustian ...
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... minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey ...
... minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey ...
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... minds are dedicate To nothing temporal . THE POWER OF VIRTUOUS DUTY . Is this her fault , or mine ? The tempter , or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I , That lying by the violet , in the sun ...
... minds are dedicate To nothing temporal . THE POWER OF VIRTUOUS DUTY . Is this her fault , or mine ? The tempter , or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I , That lying by the violet , in the sun ...
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... are forbid : ' tis all as easy Falsely to take away a life true made , As to put mettle in restrained means , To make a false one . * Profit . + Outside . LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be ignorant , and MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... are forbid : ' tis all as easy Falsely to take away a life true made , As to put mettle in restrained means , To make a false one . * Profit . + Outside . LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be ignorant , and MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads William Shakespeare. LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be ignorant , and in nothing good , But graciously to know I am no better . Ang . Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright , When it ...
With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads William Shakespeare. LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be ignorant , and in nothing good , But graciously to know I am no better . Ang . Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright , When it ...
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