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... original drawings . By T. Hudson Turner and the Editor of the Glossary of Ar- chitecture . 4 vols . Oxford and London : J. H. and J. Parker , 1851-1859 . 2. Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future . By George ...
... original drawings . By T. Hudson Turner and the Editor of the Glossary of Ar- chitecture . 4 vols . Oxford and London : J. H. and J. Parker , 1851-1859 . 2. Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future . By George ...
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... original text of Shak- speare has no similar privilege : his fairly - written manuscripts have vanished : no specimen of his handwriting , except his signature , exists : and for our Medicean codex , we possess only this precious budget ...
... original text of Shak- speare has no similar privilege : his fairly - written manuscripts have vanished : no specimen of his handwriting , except his signature , exists : and for our Medicean codex , we possess only this precious budget ...
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... originals . Shak- speare's commentators did not , indeed , enjoy this preliminary boon . The text they had to deal with was reeking with corrup- tion they are more excusable , therefore , for their shortcomings than the bookworms who ...
... originals . Shak- speare's commentators did not , indeed , enjoy this preliminary boon . The text they had to deal with was reeking with corrup- tion they are more excusable , therefore , for their shortcomings than the bookworms who ...
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... original character , for whom his creator had devised not only manners but a language also proper to himself . ' He is convinced that Shakspeare was a species of Peter the wild boy among civilized playwriters . He thinks that , on the ...
... original character , for whom his creator had devised not only manners but a language also proper to himself . ' He is convinced that Shakspeare was a species of Peter the wild boy among civilized playwriters . He thinks that , on the ...
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... original verses ( Ovid . Metamorph . iii . , 206-224 ) . The quadruped , it will be seen , are more numerous than the biped hounds- ' Dum dubitat , videre canes : primusque Melampus , Ichnobatesque sagax , latratu signa dedere , Gnosius ...
... original verses ( Ovid . Metamorph . iii . , 206-224 ) . The quadruped , it will be seen , are more numerous than the biped hounds- ' Dum dubitat , videre canes : primusque Melampus , Ichnobatesque sagax , latratu signa dedere , Gnosius ...
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Page 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
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Page 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Page 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
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