The Elizabethan Dramatists as Critics1963 |
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... never more commendable then when it overflows ; but judgment a staid and reposed thing , always containing itself within its bounds and limits . Beaumont and Fletcher were excellent in their kind , but they often err'd against decorum ...
... never more commendable then when it overflows ; but judgment a staid and reposed thing , always containing itself within its bounds and limits . Beaumont and Fletcher were excellent in their kind , but they often err'd against decorum ...
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... never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , " Would he had blotted a thousand , " which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by ...
... never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , " Would he had blotted a thousand , " which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by ...
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... never so first in the commission of wit ; as also , that he be fixt and settled in his censure , that what he approves or not approves today , he will do the same tomorrow ; and if tomorrow , the next day , and so the next week , if ...
... never so first in the commission of wit ; as also , that he be fixt and settled in his censure , that what he approves or not approves today , he will do the same tomorrow ; and if tomorrow , the next day , and so the next week , if ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
A Variety of Demand | 172 |
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