The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... noble literary form . The frequent repeti- tion of the story threw its dramatic element into more striking relief : the narrative gradually detached itself from the choral parts and fell to individual singers ; these singers separated ...
... noble literary form . The frequent repeti- tion of the story threw its dramatic element into more striking relief : the narrative gradually detached itself from the choral parts and fell to individual singers ; these singers separated ...
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... noble art came into England after the Norman Conquest , and the players became , not only the entertainers of the people , but the story - tellers and reporters of the period . They made the monotony of life more bearable . How much ...
... noble art came into England after the Norman Conquest , and the players became , not only the entertainers of the people , but the story - tellers and reporters of the period . They made the monotony of life more bearable . How much ...
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... noble art of gentleness in ungentle times ; a low , soft sky from which clouds are rarely absent , and an atmosphere which softens all outlines , subdues all sounds , and works magical effects of light and distance . These qualities of ...
... noble art of gentleness in ungentle times ; a low , soft sky from which clouds are rarely absent , and an atmosphere which softens all outlines , subdues all sounds , and works magical effects of light and distance . These qualities of ...
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... noble and impressive stronghold in Shakespeare's boyhood , ample enough to entertain a court with long - continued and magnificent pageants , is not less imposing in its vast ruins than in the day when knights rode at one another ...
... noble and impressive stronghold in Shakespeare's boyhood , ample enough to entertain a court with long - continued and magnificent pageants , is not less imposing in its vast ruins than in the day when knights rode at one another ...
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... noble reticence and restraint which exact much before it surrenders its ultimate loveliness , and in its surrender it reinvigorates instead of relaxing and debilitating . Its beauty is as much a matter of structure as of form ; as much ...
... noble reticence and restraint which exact much before it surrenders its ultimate loveliness , and in its surrender it reinvigorates instead of relaxing and debilitating . Its beauty is as much a matter of structure as of form ; as much ...
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