English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... French and we never almost fail of . Lastly , even the very rhyme itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable , by the French named the masculine rhyme , but still in the next to the last , which the French call the female , or ...
... French and we never almost fail of . Lastly , even the very rhyme itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable , by the French named the masculine rhyme , but still in the next to the last , which the French call the female , or ...
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... French play , or more difficult than to write an irregular English one , like those of Fletcher , or of Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ...
... French play , or more difficult than to write an irregular English one , like those of Fletcher , or of Shakespeare ? ' If they content themselves , as Corneille did , with some flat design , which , like an ill riddle , is found out ...
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... French language the critical method or habit of the French ; we only conclude ( we are such unconscious people ) that the French are ' more critical ' than we , and some- 20 imes even plume ourselves a little with the fact , as if the ...
... French language the critical method or habit of the French ; we only conclude ( we are such unconscious people ) that the French are ' more critical ' than we , and some- 20 imes even plume ourselves a little with the fact , as if the ...
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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