Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated characters which have been drawn by the writers of whom we speak with the Bastard in King John or the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . It was not surely from want of wit that ...
... true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated characters which have been drawn by the writers of whom we speak with the Bastard in King John or the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . It was not surely from want of wit that ...
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... true , it may serve for a copy to a charity - boy . If , like those of Rochefoucault , it be sparkling and whimsical , it may make an excellent motto for an essay . But few indeed of the many wise apophthegms which have been uttered ...
... true , it may serve for a copy to a charity - boy . If , like those of Rochefoucault , it be sparkling and whimsical , it may make an excellent motto for an essay . But few indeed of the many wise apophthegms which have been uttered ...
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... Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus . The classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents Machiavelli 35.
... Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus . The classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents Machiavelli 35.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the author . The ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the author . The ...
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... true that , in those things which concern this life and this world , man constantly becomes wiser and wiser . But it is no less true that , as respects a higher power and a future state , man , in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend ...
... true that , in those things which concern this life and this world , man constantly becomes wiser and wiser . But it is no less true that , as respects a higher power and a future state , man , in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend ...
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