The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1812 |
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... perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other . I will not say with Pope , that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
... perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other . I will not say with Pope , that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
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... perhaps excelled all but Homer in securing the first purpose of a writer , by exciting restless and unquench- able curiosity , and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The shows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
... perhaps excelled all but Homer in securing the first purpose of a writer , by exciting restless and unquench- able curiosity , and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The shows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
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... perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they ...
... perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they ...
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