Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionJ. Warren, 1821 - 356 pages |
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... never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had something in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not French , they were not Dutch , or ...
... never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had something in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not French , they were not Dutch , or ...
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... never knew any thing till we did ; that the world had grown old in sloth and ignorance , had dreamt out its long minority of five thousand years in a dozing state , and that it first began to wake out of sleep , to rouse itself , and ...
... never knew any thing till we did ; that the world had grown old in sloth and ignorance , had dreamt out its long minority of five thousand years in a dozing state , and that it first began to wake out of sleep , to rouse itself , and ...
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... never yet subsided . Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear , and gave the watch- word ; but England joined the shout , and echoed it back with her island voice , from her thousand GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 15.
... never yet subsided . Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear , and gave the watch- word ; but England joined the shout , and echoed it back with her island voice , from her thousand GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 15.
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... never seen on earth before , nor since . This shone manifestly both in his words and actions . We see it in his washing the Disciples ' feet the night before his death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art ...
... never seen on earth before , nor since . This shone manifestly both in his words and actions . We see it in his washing the Disciples ' feet the night before his death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art ...
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... never thought of con- sidering others , but as they were Greeks or Ro- mans , as they were bound to them by certain positive ties , or , on the other hand , as separated from them by fiercer antipathies . Their virtues were the virtues ...
... never thought of con- sidering others , but as they were Greeks or Ro- mans , as they were bound to them by certain positive ties , or , on the other hand , as separated from them by fiercer antipathies . Their virtues were the virtues ...
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