Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and ArtC. Kegan Paul, 1877 - 434 pages |
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... existence . And therefore , I say , a potential Romeo , and a potential Hamlet , taking these names as representative of certain spiritual tendencies or habits , existed in Shakspere . Nor do I identify Shak- spere with Prospero ...
... existence . And therefore , I say , a potential Romeo , and a potential Hamlet , taking these names as representative of certain spiritual tendencies or habits , existed in Shakspere . Nor do I identify Shak- spere with Prospero ...
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... existence at a period of national depression , a time when the political enemies of England were her religious allies . But in the days of Elizabeth the nation had sprung up to a conscious- ness of new strength and vitality , and its ...
... existence at a period of national depression , a time when the political enemies of England were her religious allies . But in the days of Elizabeth the nation had sprung up to a conscious- ness of new strength and vitality , and its ...
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... existence . Let us , remaining at the same point of view , glance now at Bacon and the scientific movement . Bacon and Shakspere stand far apart . In moral character and in gifts of intellect and soul we should find little resemblance ...
... existence . Let us , remaining at the same point of view , glance now at Bacon and the scientific movement . Bacon and Shakspere stand far apart . In moral character and in gifts of intellect and soul we should find little resemblance ...
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... existence , —a manufacture rather than a creation , -in which the aver- age man might find average piety , average rationality , and an average amount of soothing appeal to the senses ; while rarer spirits could frame out of the ...
... existence , —a manufacture rather than a creation , -in which the aver- age man might find average piety , average rationality , and an average amount of soothing appeal to the senses ; while rarer spirits could frame out of the ...
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... existence ; perhaps because he felt more than other men their mysterious- ness . Many of us seem to think it the all - essential thing to be provided with answers to the difficult questions which the world propounds , no matter how ...
... existence ; perhaps because he felt more than other men their mysterious- ness . Many of us seem to think it the all - essential thing to be provided with answers to the difficult questions which the world propounds , no matter how ...
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