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... words and names which have the effect of wit by sounding big , and meaning nothing : - ' full of sound and fury , signifying nothing . ' But of the artifices of this author's burlesque style I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . It ...
... words and names which have the effect of wit by sounding big , and meaning nothing : - ' full of sound and fury , signifying nothing . ' But of the artifices of this author's burlesque style I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . It ...
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... words are , God save ye , fare ye well : common actions , flattery and cozenage : common things , women and cuckolds . ' Act I. Scene 3 . In reading all this , one is somehow reminded perpetually of Mr. Kean's acting in Shakespear we do ...
... words are , God save ye , fare ye well : common actions , flattery and cozenage : common things , women and cuckolds . ' Act I. Scene 3 . In reading all this , one is somehow reminded perpetually of Mr. Kean's acting in Shakespear we do ...
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... words of Sir T. Brown ( which will serve as a fine specimen of his manner ) , " But the quincunxes of Heaven ( the ... word in the Hydriotaphia about a thigh - bone , or a skull , or a bit of mouldered coffin , or a tomb - stone , or a ...
... words of Sir T. Brown ( which will serve as a fine specimen of his manner ) , " But the quincunxes of Heaven ( the ... word in the Hydriotaphia about a thigh - bone , or a skull , or a bit of mouldered coffin , or a tomb - stone , or a ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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