The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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Page vii
... literature in the qualities which not only give deep and fresh interest to life , but which make for the liberation and enrichment of the human spirit . As the Spokesman of a race to which has fallen a large share of the government of ...
... literature in the qualities which not only give deep and fresh interest to life , but which make for the liberation and enrichment of the human spirit . As the Spokesman of a race to which has fallen a large share of the government of ...
Page viii
William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. searched the whole field of contemporary literature , records , and history with infinite patience and with keen intelligence , by the history of his time , and by a study of his work . The ...
William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. searched the whole field of contemporary literature , records , and history with infinite patience and with keen intelligence , by the history of his time , and by a study of his work . The ...
Page 17
... literatures was putting its impress on men of taste and culture . Italy , by virtue of its immense service in the recovery of classical thought and art , and in the production of great works of its own in literature , painting ...
... literatures was putting its impress on men of taste and culture . Italy , by virtue of its immense service in the recovery of classical thought and art , and in the production of great works of its own in literature , painting ...
Page 18
... literature came into England like a flood , and , through a host of translations , some of which were of masterly quality , the intellectual inequality of a differ- ence of more than two centuries in culture was equal- ized with ...
... literature came into England like a flood , and , through a host of translations , some of which were of masterly quality , the intellectual inequality of a differ- ence of more than two centuries in culture was equal- ized with ...
Page 37
... literatures than his own . His knowl- edge was of the kind which a man of his quality of mind and educational ... literature of both countries , was easily acquired . It must be remembered that for thirty years 37 Birth and Breeding.
... literatures than his own . His knowl- edge was of the kind which a man of his quality of mind and educational ... literature of both countries , was easily acquired . It must be remembered that for thirty years 37 Birth and Breeding.
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