The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page vi
... seem to call , for particular investiga- tion . In fact , general readers , for the most part , pay little or no attention to the language of what they are reading , and seldom if ever interrogate , or ... seems to me a rather vi PREFACE .
... seem to call , for particular investiga- tion . In fact , general readers , for the most part , pay little or no attention to the language of what they are reading , and seldom if ever interrogate , or ... seems to me a rather vi PREFACE .
Page vii
William Shakespeare Henry Norman Hudson. pleasant task - work , seems to me a rather ungracious and impotent business . For it has long been a settled axiom that the proper office of poetry is to please ; of the highest poetry , to make ...
William Shakespeare Henry Norman Hudson. pleasant task - work , seems to me a rather ungracious and impotent business . For it has long been a settled axiom that the proper office of poetry is to please ; of the highest poetry , to make ...
Page viii
... seem at first a strange world , · strange not only for the spiritualized realism of it , but because it is so much more deeply and truly natural than the book - world to which they have been accustomed . The strangeness of the place ...
... seem at first a strange world , · strange not only for the spiritualized realism of it , but because it is so much more deeply and truly natural than the book - world to which they have been accustomed . The strangeness of the place ...
Page ix
... seems to them a land peopled with the ghosts of what had long ago been to them real living things . Thus the effect , for some time , is rather to scare and chill their interest than to kindle and heighten it . And the Poet is ...
... seems to them a land peopled with the ghosts of what had long ago been to them real living things . Thus the effect , for some time , is rather to scare and chill their interest than to kindle and heighten it . And the Poet is ...
Page xi
... seems to come , and indeed really does come , from the hearer's own mind . It is much the same in editing a standard author for common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often , putting average readers in mind how ignorant ...
... seems to come , and indeed really does come , from the hearer's own mind . It is much the same in editing a standard author for common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often , putting average readers in mind how ignorant ...
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