Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1961 |
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... characters on the stage - the stage of history on which men act . His famous passages of descriptive analysis , on the Elizabethan policy , the puritan movement in England in the seventeenth century , the age and character of Hampden ...
... characters on the stage - the stage of history on which men act . His famous passages of descriptive analysis , on the Elizabethan policy , the puritan movement in England in the seventeenth century , the age and character of Hampden ...
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... character . England has no such names to show ; not that she wanted men of sincere piety , of deep learning , of steady and ad- venturous courage . But these were thrown into the back- ground . Elsewhere men of this character were the ...
... character . England has no such names to show ; not that she wanted men of sincere piety , of deep learning , of steady and ad- venturous courage . But these were thrown into the back- ground . Elsewhere men of this character were the ...
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... character to inspire esteem or tender- ness . He was not our countryman . He never set foot on our soil till he was more than thirty years old . His speech bewrayed his foreign origin and breeding . His love for his native land , though ...
... character to inspire esteem or tender- ness . He was not our countryman . He never set foot on our soil till he was more than thirty years old . His speech bewrayed his foreign origin and breeding . His love for his native land , though ...
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