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... seems this emphasis on kings ; but it is the royal soul of England that Shakespeare is defin- ing , just as the word ' prophet ' , used to introduce the passage , has , poetically , a deeper content than the dramatic context alone would ...
... seems this emphasis on kings ; but it is the royal soul of England that Shakespeare is defin- ing , just as the word ' prophet ' , used to introduce the passage , has , poetically , a deeper content than the dramatic context alone would ...
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... seems unco - ordinated and loose , but it obeys the same law as Shakespeare's earlier national play , King John ; and we must , I fear , again delay our advance to indulge in short retrospective notice of that play before proceeding ...
... seems unco - ordinated and loose , but it obeys the same law as Shakespeare's earlier national play , King John ; and we must , I fear , again delay our advance to indulge in short retrospective notice of that play before proceeding ...
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... seems at first merely to record certain known events , a most subtle treatment is all the time suggesting deeper and more perennially important significances . The persons are all more than themselves : they are instruments , as it were ...
... seems at first merely to record certain known events , a most subtle treatment is all the time suggesting deeper and more perennially important significances . The persons are all more than themselves : they are instruments , as it were ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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