Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionJ. Warren, 1821 - 356 Seiten |
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... hope to do as well as they ; what we learn from them , we may in general expect to do worse . - What is , I think , as likely as any thing to cure us of this overweening admiration of the present , and un- mingled contempt for past ...
... hope to do as well as they ; what we learn from them , we may in general expect to do worse . - What is , I think , as likely as any thing to cure us of this overweening admiration of the present , and un- mingled contempt for past ...
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... hope to find , by going to the fountain- head of thought and experience . We are quite wrong in supposing ( as we are apt to do ) , that we can plead an exclusive title to wit and wisdom , to taste and genius , as the net produce and ...
... hope to find , by going to the fountain- head of thought and experience . We are quite wrong in supposing ( as we are apt to do ) , that we can plead an exclusive title to wit and wisdom , to taste and genius , as the net produce and ...
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... hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . - Dr . Johnson said of these writers generally , that " they were sought after because they were scarce , and would not have been scarce ...
... hope the best , put a good face on the matter , but are sadly afraid the thing cannot answer . - Dr . Johnson said of these writers generally , that " they were sought after because they were scarce , and would not have been scarce ...
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... hope , and the abyss of despair it lays open to us * . The literature of this age then , I would say , was strongly influenced ( among other causes ) , first by the spirit of Christianity , and secondly by the spirit of Protestantism ...
... hope , and the abyss of despair it lays open to us * . The literature of this age then , I would say , was strongly influenced ( among other causes ) , first by the spirit of Christianity , and secondly by the spirit of Protestantism ...
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... hope and fear ; stumbled upon fate unawares ; while the imagination , close behind it , caught at and clung to the shape of danger , or " snatched a wild and fearful joy " from its escape . The acci- dents of nature were less provided ...
... hope and fear ; stumbled upon fate unawares ; while the imagination , close behind it , caught at and clung to the shape of danger , or " snatched a wild and fearful joy " from its escape . The acci- dents of nature were less provided ...
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