The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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... of this delightful and sweetest child of fancy : and when my imagination has been heated by the glow ... ardour of his uncommon fire , have never failed ...
... of this delightful and sweetest child of fancy : and when my imagination has been heated by the glow ... ardour of his uncommon fire , have never failed ...
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to which our poet instantly rejoined : “ Thou son of fire , with thy face like a maple , The same difference as between a scalded and coddled apple .
to which our poet instantly rejoined : “ Thou son of fire , with thy face like a maple , The same difference as between a scalded and coddled apple .
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... and reach the soul ; for they have issued from lips of fire , from conceptions worthy of a superior nature , from feelings solemn and unearthly .
... and reach the soul ; for they have issued from lips of fire , from conceptions worthy of a superior nature , from feelings solemn and unearthly .
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Those had most probably perished in the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613 ; and the first folio was made up from the playhouse copies ...
Those had most probably perished in the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613 ; and the first folio was made up from the playhouse copies ...
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O you leaden messengers , That ride upon the violent speed of fire , Fly with false aim ; move the still - piercing air , That sings with piercing , do not ...
O you leaden messengers , That ride upon the violent speed of fire , Fly with false aim ; move the still - piercing air , That sings with piercing , do not ...
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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