Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... pass and repass , rather than a face grooved and charactered into any one permanent show of relation towards the outer world . Placed beside the mask of Cromwell , it would fail to impress , not only as being less massive and energetic ...
... pass and repass , rather than a face grooved and charactered into any one permanent show of relation towards the outer world . Placed beside the mask of Cromwell , it would fail to impress , not only as being less massive and energetic ...
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... pass and repass over a firmer basis of permanent character ; the tremors among the nervous tissues do not reach to such depths of sheer nervous dissolution , but sooner make impact against the solid bone . The calm in the one face is ...
... pass and repass over a firmer basis of permanent character ; the tremors among the nervous tissues do not reach to such depths of sheer nervous dissolution , but sooner make impact against the solid bone . The calm in the one face is ...
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... pass to the plays , and he will inevitably become aware of Shake- speare's personal fondness for certain themes or trains of thought , particularly that of the speed and destructiveness of time . Death , vicissitude , the march and ...
... pass to the plays , and he will inevitably become aware of Shake- speare's personal fondness for certain themes or trains of thought , particularly that of the speed and destructiveness of time . Death , vicissitude , the march and ...
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... pass their lives in silence , appearing in the world at their time , enjoying it for a season , and returning to the earth again ; marked out from among these , and appointed to be one of those whom the whole earth should remember and ...
... pass their lives in silence , appearing in the world at their time , enjoying it for a season , and returning to the earth again ; marked out from among these , and appointed to be one of those whom the whole earth should remember and ...
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... passes , by a very slight topical connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if ...
... passes , by a very slight topical connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if ...
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