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Page 84
... poet , and take the small trouble of inventing stronger circumstances than the handkerchief , and better conducted ... poets , this is a play ; it is not very likely ; but we must bring about the plot some way or other . In them , the ...
... poet , and take the small trouble of inventing stronger circumstances than the handkerchief , and better conducted ... poets , this is a play ; it is not very likely ; but we must bring about the plot some way or other . In them , the ...
Page 168
... poet , that could have been in any way a model for Shakespeare , when already formed as a writer , was Jonson . He was born in 1574. His first play ap- peared in 1598. It has great merit , and must have been much admired . It seems ...
... poet , that could have been in any way a model for Shakespeare , when already formed as a writer , was Jonson . He was born in 1574. His first play ap- peared in 1598. It has great merit , and must have been much admired . It seems ...
Page 169
... poet , and , at least , was cer- tainly not likely to make any innovations in verse , from any real feeling for the effect , which a poetical turn or mind produces upon the metre . He was almost an anti- I have no doubt that poet , in ...
... poet , and , at least , was cer- tainly not likely to make any innovations in verse , from any real feeling for the effect , which a poetical turn or mind produces upon the metre . He was almost an anti- I have no doubt that poet , in ...
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