English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... opinions of the gods , making light tales of that unspotted 1280 essence , and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions . Herein may much be said ; let this suffice : the poets did not induce such opinions , but ...
... opinions of the gods , making light tales of that unspotted 1280 essence , and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions . Herein may much be said ; let this suffice : the poets did not induce such opinions , but ...
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... opinion , Crites , a person of a sharp judgement , and somewhat too delicate a taste in wit , which the world have mistaken in him for ill - nature , said , smiling to us , that if the concernment of this battle had not been so ...
... opinion , Crites , a person of a sharp judgement , and somewhat too delicate a taste in wit , which the world have mistaken in him for ill - nature , said , smiling to us , that if the concernment of this battle had not been so ...
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... opinion , whether you do not think all writers , both French and English , ought to give place 1490 to him . ' 1495 ' I fear , ' replied Neander , ' that in obeying your commands I shall draw some envy on myself . Besides , in ...
... opinion , whether you do not think all writers , both French and English , ought to give place 1490 to him . ' 1495 ' I fear , ' replied Neander , ' that in obeying your commands I shall draw some envy on myself . Besides , in ...
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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