The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Jefferson Press, 1906 |
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... reading . Spenser , Milton , Keats , and Tennyson ( to mention only great English poets ) had the like power , but none had it in quite the same strength as Shakespeare . In his case , as in other cases , this power of literary ...
... reading . Spenser , Milton , Keats , and Tennyson ( to mention only great English poets ) had the like power , but none had it in quite the same strength as Shakespeare . In his case , as in other cases , this power of literary ...
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... reader , but he was never a scholar ; all that he read passed quickly into his mind , but did not long retain there the precise original form . It was at once assimilated , di- gested , transmuted by his always dominant intellect and ...
... reader , but he was never a scholar ; all that he read passed quickly into his mind , but did not long retain there the precise original form . It was at once assimilated , di- gested , transmuted by his always dominant intellect and ...
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... reader is often left to supply elisions of phrase , which offer embarrassing testimony to the lightning rapidity of their author's thought . Shakespeare has been described as the least grammatical of writers , and the comment is not ...
... reader is often left to supply elisions of phrase , which offer embarrassing testimony to the lightning rapidity of their author's thought . Shakespeare has been described as the least grammatical of writers , and the comment is not ...
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... masterpieces of the world , nine of his fourteen comedies , five of his ten histories , and six of his twelve tragedies , were for the —— first time presented to the reading public , were rescued [ xx ] GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
... masterpieces of the world , nine of his fourteen comedies , five of his ten histories , and six of his twelve tragedies , were for the —— first time presented to the reading public , were rescued [ xx ] GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
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William Shakespeare Sir Sidney Lee. first time presented to the reading public , were rescued from urgent peril of oblivion , by the promoters of the First Folio . The responsibility for this first attempt to give the world a complete ...
William Shakespeare Sir Sidney Lee. first time presented to the reading public , were rescued from urgent peril of oblivion , by the promoters of the First Folio . The responsibility for this first attempt to give the world a complete ...
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