Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page v
... Shakespeare's literary London dialect was barely intelligible . And now English , with no essential differences , is the mother - tongue of more than a hundred and twenty millions of men and women , scattered over all the quarters of ...
... Shakespeare's literary London dialect was barely intelligible . And now English , with no essential differences , is the mother - tongue of more than a hundred and twenty millions of men and women , scattered over all the quarters of ...
Page viii
... Shakespeare is by Mr Sidney Lee . To Dr Samuel Rawson Gardiner we owe the discussion of the Puritan movement . Mr A. H. Bullen has described for us the Restora- tion literature , and has revised Beaumont and Fletcher , Middleton ...
... Shakespeare is by Mr Sidney Lee . To Dr Samuel Rawson Gardiner we owe the discussion of the Puritan movement . Mr A. H. Bullen has described for us the Restora- tion literature , and has revised Beaumont and Fletcher , Middleton ...
Page 47
... Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice - the Jew who guides the Empress to the place where the three crosses are found being the prototype of Shylock , and giving up his secret to save himself from the punishment pronounced on him for having ...
... Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice - the Jew who guides the Empress to the place where the three crosses are found being the prototype of Shylock , and giving up his secret to save himself from the punishment pronounced on him for having ...
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... Shakespeare's ; he begins in the prevalent fashion , and soon enriches English literature with two new metres of capital importance ( the seven - line stanza and decasyllabic couplet ) , and with a new range of subjects . Though he had ...
... Shakespeare's ; he begins in the prevalent fashion , and soon enriches English literature with two new metres of capital importance ( the seven - line stanza and decasyllabic couplet ) , and with a new range of subjects . Though he had ...
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... Shakespeare himself , but the in- conclusiveness of the Dethe of the Duchesse and the Parlement of Foules , and the unfinished con- dition of every other poem in which he tried to work on his own lines as regards plot , prove that he ...
... Shakespeare himself , but the in- conclusiveness of the Dethe of the Duchesse and the Parlement of Foules , and the unfinished con- dition of every other poem in which he tried to work on his own lines as regards plot , prove that he ...
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