The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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... learned Greek , rich in fit epithets , Blest in the lovely marriage of pure words . This state of mind was to be expected , and the other European nations must have gone through it . It is very apt to express itself in vehement denial ...
... learned Greek , rich in fit epithets , Blest in the lovely marriage of pure words . This state of mind was to be expected , and the other European nations must have gone through it . It is very apt to express itself in vehement denial ...
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... learned verbosity . Lawyer . I most graduatically thank your lordship . Outdated forms and trite phrases disapproved . Gascoigne . Certain Notes ( 1575 ) : If I should undertake to write in praise of a gentlewoman , I would neither ...
... learned verbosity . Lawyer . I most graduatically thank your lordship . Outdated forms and trite phrases disapproved . Gascoigne . Certain Notes ( 1575 ) : If I should undertake to write in praise of a gentlewoman , I would neither ...
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... learned in men then books . He is to be a wise , as well as a witty man , and a good man , as well as a good poet ; and I'd allow him to be so far a good fellow too , to take a cheerful cup to whet his wits , so he take not so much as ...
... learned in men then books . He is to be a wise , as well as a witty man , and a good man , as well as a good poet ; and I'd allow him to be so far a good fellow too , to take a cheerful cup to whet his wits , so he take not so much as ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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