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Page xiii
... words not less turgid than were hurled by Pistol at the head of the recalcitrant and contumelious Mistress Tearsheet : VOL . II . b nor assuredly had the poet much right to expect that POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xiii.
... words not less turgid than were hurled by Pistol at the head of the recalcitrant and contumelious Mistress Tearsheet : VOL . II . b nor assuredly had the poet much right to expect that POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xiii.
Page xx
... and Leander . Before I take in hand the examination of Chapman's works as a dramatist , I Carlyle's Frederick the Great , book iii . chapter xvi .; vol . i . p . 329 . * may sum up the best and the worst I have XX ESSAY ON GEORGE CHAPMAN'S.
... and Leander . Before I take in hand the examination of Chapman's works as a dramatist , I Carlyle's Frederick the Great , book iii . chapter xvi .; vol . i . p . 329 . * may sum up the best and the worst I have XX ESSAY ON GEORGE CHAPMAN'S.
Page xxix
... gross dotage rather loathed than soothed ? " I should be surprised to find in any poet of Chapman's age an echo of such 3 VOL . II . с clear and daring words as these , which may suffice POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xxix.
... gross dotage rather loathed than soothed ? " I should be surprised to find in any poet of Chapman's age an echo of such 3 VOL . II . с clear and daring words as these , which may suffice POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xxix.
Page xlv
... in the same year ( 1542 ) which had seen the fall , the restoration , and the death by heartbreak of the faithful d VOL . II . minister who owed not to the intercession of the king's POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xiv.
... in the same year ( 1542 ) which had seen the fall , the restoration , and the death by heartbreak of the faithful d VOL . II . minister who owed not to the intercession of the king's POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xiv.
Page lxi
... But by this light the two elder poets too often failed to walk straight and sure , drank too often from this fountain a heady or a narcotic draught . VOL . II . One at least , and not he who had drunk POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . lxi.
... But by this light the two elder poets too often failed to walk straight and sure , drank too often from this fountain a heady or a narcotic draught . VOL . II . One at least , and not he who had drunk POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . lxi.
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