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... remains beautiful , pathetic , un- certain , an embarrassment , among other things , a middle- aged battleship , towed along by love . Evil is never the infectious , sinister , malevolent force of the Christian trage- dies , but a ...
... remains beautiful , pathetic , un- certain , an embarrassment , among other things , a middle- aged battleship , towed along by love . Evil is never the infectious , sinister , malevolent force of the Christian trage- dies , but a ...
Page 86
... remains exceedingly subdued in the plays . His fullest development , Octavius , in Antony and Cleopatra , never emerges from his political cocoon ; and he often remains multiple , as Sicinius and Brutus in Coriolanus , or the anonymous ...
... remains exceedingly subdued in the plays . His fullest development , Octavius , in Antony and Cleopatra , never emerges from his political cocoon ; and he often remains multiple , as Sicinius and Brutus in Coriolanus , or the anonymous ...
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... remains a touchstone beneath a world leveled by law , prudence , and political calculation . This change of tone changes the ending from a suspense about success or failure to one about epic majesty . The two lovers have now lost - that ...
... remains a touchstone beneath a world leveled by law , prudence , and political calculation . This change of tone changes the ending from a suspense about success or failure to one about epic majesty . The two lovers have now lost - that ...
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