Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... question . It is a problem of the highest difficulty . Some- thing , indeed , of the poet's personal character and views we cannot help gathering , as we read his dramas . Passages again and again occur there , of which , from their ...
... question . It is a problem of the highest difficulty . Some- thing , indeed , of the poet's personal character and views we cannot help gathering , as we read his dramas . Passages again and again occur there , of which , from their ...
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... question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the mantled tread of a king ? Still the fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully autobiographic ...
... question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the mantled tread of a king ? Still the fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully autobiographic ...
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... the morrow . Now , at such moments , as we believe , it was the habit of Shakespeare's mind , obliged thereto by the necessity of its structure , to ponder ceaselessly those questions relating to man SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 13.
... the morrow . Now , at such moments , as we believe , it was the habit of Shakespeare's mind , obliged thereto by the necessity of its structure , to ponder ceaselessly those questions relating to man SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 13.
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Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. structure , to ponder ceaselessly those questions relating to man , his origin , and his destiny , in familiarity with which con- sists what is called the spiritual element in human nature . It was ...
Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. structure , to ponder ceaselessly those questions relating to man , his origin , and his destiny , in familiarity with which con- sists what is called the spiritual element in human nature . It was ...
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... question . It is a problem of the highest difficulty . Some- thing , indeed , of the poet's personal character and ... questions relating to man SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 11.
... question . It is a problem of the highest difficulty . Some- thing , indeed , of the poet's personal character and ... questions relating to man SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 11.
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