Materials for the Life of ShakespearePierce Butler University of North Carolina Press, 1930 - 200 pages |
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... poems . As to the character given of him by Ben Johnson there is a good deal true in it : But I believe it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated ...
... poems . As to the character given of him by Ben Johnson there is a good deal true in it : But I believe it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated ...
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... poems , figures and fables , many things very profitable to be known , do pass by a young scholar . Plutarch.1 As , according to Philoxenus , that flesh is most sweet which is no flesh , and those the delectablest fishes which are no ...
... poems , figures and fables , many things very profitable to be known , do pass by a young scholar . Plutarch.1 As , according to Philoxenus , that flesh is most sweet which is no flesh , and those the delectablest fishes which are no ...
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... poem that may quell the hurtful venom of it ; for poets do always mingle some- what in their poems , whereby they intimate that they condemn what they declare . idem . As our breath doth make a shriller sound being sent through the ...
... poem that may quell the hurtful venom of it ; for poets do always mingle some- what in their poems , whereby they intimate that they condemn what they declare . idem . As our breath doth make a shriller sound being sent through the ...
Contents
EARLY BIOGRAPHY AND ANECDOTE | 1 |
CRITICISM AND REPUTATION AMONG | 49 |
SOCIAL STANDING AND PERSONAL REP | 94 |
Copyright | |
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