English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... hath in him , hath already passed half the hardness of the way , and therefore is beholding to the philosopher but for the other half . Nay , truly , learned men have learnedly thought , that where once reason 680 hath so much ...
... hath in him , hath already passed half the hardness of the way , and therefore is beholding to the philosopher but for the other half . Nay , truly , learned men have learnedly thought , that where once reason 680 hath so much ...
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... hath by being the only fit 1010 speech for music ( music , I say , the most divine striker of the senses , ) thus much is undoubtedly true , that if reading be foolish without remembering , memory being the only treasurer of knowledge ...
... hath by being the only fit 1010 speech for music ( music , I say , the most divine striker of the senses , ) thus much is undoubtedly true , that if reading be foolish without remembering , memory being the only treasurer of knowledge ...
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... hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable saving two , called antepenultima , and little more hath the Spanish ; and therefore very gracelessly may they use 1715 dactyls . The English is subject to none of these ...
... hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable saving two , called antepenultima , and little more hath the Spanish ; and therefore very gracelessly may they use 1715 dactyls . The English is subject to none of these ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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