The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... touch with nature that the whole world was alive to them in every sight and sound . Personification was not only natural but inevi- table to a race whose imagination was far in advance B I CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE.
... touch with nature that the whole world was alive to them in every sight and sound . Personification was not only natural but inevi- table to a race whose imagination was far in advance B I CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... sound , but they were coarse in habit and speech , after the manner of the time . There was as much honest and sober living as to - day ; the grossness was not a matter of character , but of expression . Men and women saw , without any ...
... sound , but they were coarse in habit and speech , after the manner of the time . There was as much honest and sober living as to - day ; the grossness was not a matter of character , but of expression . Men and women saw , without any ...
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... sound historic sense . The great dramatists who followed these early unknown playwrights understood that the humorous cannot be separated from the tragic without violating the facts of life ; and religion , in its later expressions ...
... sound historic sense . The great dramatists who followed these early unknown playwrights understood that the humorous cannot be separated from the tragic without violating the facts of life ; and religion , in its later expressions ...
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... sound expression ; but he composed his comedies in terms of English life . " Roister Doister " was a type of man instantly recognized by an English audience of every social grade ; a coward who was also a boaster , whose wooing , like ...
... sound expression ; but he composed his comedies in terms of English life . " Roister Doister " was a type of man instantly recognized by an English audience of every social grade ; a coward who was also a boaster , whose wooing , like ...
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... sound conditions was concerned ; or committed by tempera- ment to unbalanced , disorderly , and tragical careers . Greene , after a life of dissipation , died in extreme misery of mind and body ; Peele involved himself in many kinds of ...
... sound conditions was concerned ; or committed by tempera- ment to unbalanced , disorderly , and tragical careers . Greene , after a life of dissipation , died in extreme misery of mind and body ; Peele involved himself in many kinds of ...
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