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... spirit ; and where it exists , none will alto- gether take it away . There is some analogy between the distinction I am here treating , and the case of monosyllabic verses . Pope has decried these , by one line in his Essay on Criticism ...
... spirit ; and where it exists , none will alto- gether take it away . There is some analogy between the distinction I am here treating , and the case of monosyllabic verses . Pope has decried these , by one line in his Essay on Criticism ...
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... spirit , ranging for revenge , With Até by his side , come hot from hell , Shall in these confines , with a monarch's voice , Cry " Havoc ! " and let slip the dogs of war , That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion ...
... spirit , ranging for revenge , With Até by his side , come hot from hell , Shall in these confines , with a monarch's voice , Cry " Havoc ! " and let slip the dogs of war , That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion ...
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... spirit , and in tragic and pathetic effect and nature , to any other . And so the public seem to think . The irresistible effect of it upon our feelings is greatly increased by the purely domestic nature of the story . From the tragical ...
... spirit , and in tragic and pathetic effect and nature , to any other . And so the public seem to think . The irresistible effect of it upon our feelings is greatly increased by the purely domestic nature of the story . From the tragical ...
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accented acted beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse blood break broken Cæsar cæsura called character Collier comedy Comedy of Errors comic conceits Coriolanus crown curious Cymbeline death delight doth double endings dramatic dull effect enumerative eyes Falstaff fancy Farewell father feeling Fletcher flowing fourth style friends gentle Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honour imitation instance Jonson Julius Cæsar kind King lines long speeches look lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Malone Marlow means merely Merry Wives metre mind nature never night observed old play Oldcastle Othello passage perhaps poems poet poetical poetry poor praise printed prose remarkable rhyme Richard Richard II Romeo scene seems Shake Shakespeare soliloquy sometimes Sonnets soul speak spirit sweet syllable taste tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tongue Tybalt unbroken unto versification weak endings words writer written