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... never find a plausible pretext for proceeding against him . Beyond the works we have mentioned , his productions are few and of little importance . To have translated Shakespeare so admirably as François Victor Hugo Nos . 61 & 62 . did ...
... never find a plausible pretext for proceeding against him . Beyond the works we have mentioned , his productions are few and of little importance . To have translated Shakespeare so admirably as François Victor Hugo Nos . 61 & 62 . did ...
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... never was there in all my life ! ' The shy English- man , much confused , gently re stated his details . Dickens is described as more loudly denying their accuracy . Mrs. Dickens reminded her husband that the gentleman was right , and ...
... never was there in all my life ! ' The shy English- man , much confused , gently re stated his details . Dickens is described as more loudly denying their accuracy . Mrs. Dickens reminded her husband that the gentleman was right , and ...
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... never do , " answered Mr. Tyler ; " it would not be proper for the President of the United States to drive a second - hand carriage . " " And sure , what are you but a second - hand President ? " was the prompt and unanswerable reply ...
... never do , " answered Mr. Tyler ; " it would not be proper for the President of the United States to drive a second - hand carriage . " " And sure , what are you but a second - hand President ? " was the prompt and unanswerable reply ...
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... never was any tradition on the subject . The first writer who makes men- tion of Shakespeare's lameness was Capell . He , however , takes credit to himself for the hypothesis , that when Shakespeare wrote , in Sonnet 37 : " So I , made ...
... never was any tradition on the subject . The first writer who makes men- tion of Shakespeare's lameness was Capell . He , however , takes credit to himself for the hypothesis , that when Shakespeare wrote , in Sonnet 37 : " So I , made ...
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... never to have existed ; the whole truth being that the notion of Shakespeare's lameness was a conjecture of the eighth editor of his works , based upon a most ab- surd and improbable interpretation of the 37th and 89th Sonnets . " It ...
... never to have existed ; the whole truth being that the notion of Shakespeare's lameness was a conjecture of the eighth editor of his works , based upon a most ab- surd and improbable interpretation of the 37th and 89th Sonnets . " It ...
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Page 64 - OH that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, 5 ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
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Page 64 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
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Page 30 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Page 44 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 64 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves