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... whole speech , three or four lines , is quite capable of being Shakespeare's . Collier says , the early works of Shakespeare are not so good as his later ones . But are they like Titus Andro- nicus ? I think totally opposite ...
... whole speech , three or four lines , is quite capable of being Shakespeare's . Collier says , the early works of Shakespeare are not so good as his later ones . But are they like Titus Andro- nicus ? I think totally opposite ...
Page 103
... whole centre of interest . Elizabeth , too , in the prophecy , is called ' an aged Princess . ' That could not , as is ob- served , please her , however old she might really be at the time . James I. , on the other hand , would not like ...
... whole centre of interest . Elizabeth , too , in the prophecy , is called ' an aged Princess . ' That could not , as is ob- served , please her , however old she might really be at the time . James I. , on the other hand , would not like ...
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... , and the other from the Italian ; and that Spenser , though he translated whole poems from the French , must be considered chiefly as belonging to the latter ; and Shake- speare took him , principally , for a model , SECT . IV . ] 159.
... , and the other from the Italian ; and that Spenser , though he translated whole poems from the French , must be considered chiefly as belonging to the latter ; and Shake- speare took him , principally , for a model , SECT . IV . ] 159.
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