The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
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... English drama are his . He seems , says Dennis , to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony , that is , the harmony of blank verse , diversified often by dis- syllable and trissyllable terminations . For the ...
... English drama are his . He seems , says Dennis , to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony , that is , the harmony of blank verse , diversified often by dis- syllable and trissyllable terminations . For the ...
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... English , far more than in any one English author I have seen ; but we must be cautious to imagine , this was of his own doing . For the English tongue , in this age , began extremely to suffer by an inundation of Latin : and this , to ...
... English , far more than in any one English author I have seen ; but we must be cautious to imagine , this was of his own doing . For the English tongue , in this age , began extremely to suffer by an inundation of Latin : and this , to ...
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