The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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Page 47
... Italian novelists , and the history of the stage in Spain and Germany , nearly con- cern the student of our Elizabethan drama ; and the English stage in the days of the Restoration can be understood only by reference to the theatres of ...
... Italian novelists , and the history of the stage in Spain and Germany , nearly con- cern the student of our Elizabethan drama ; and the English stage in the days of the Restoration can be understood only by reference to the theatres of ...
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... Italy , which had produced many plays for strolling players , and which dated forty or more years earlier than England her first regular tragedy , ' Sofonisba ; ' but , for want of a brisk centre of wit , she still failed to achieve ...
... Italy , which had produced many plays for strolling players , and which dated forty or more years earlier than England her first regular tragedy , ' Sofonisba ; ' but , for want of a brisk centre of wit , she still failed to achieve ...
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... Italy has not been suppressed as it is in England by the phlegmatic ways of the people among whom he dwells . His language is biblical ; he upholds the doctrine of his race , an eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth , which , in the ...
... Italy has not been suppressed as it is in England by the phlegmatic ways of the people among whom he dwells . His language is biblical ; he upholds the doctrine of his race , an eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth , which , in the ...
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... Italian sun , who was not allowed even to look out of window at the pleasures of the young . As we have said before , it was not from a reasoner's determination to be subtle , but from the innate force of instinct with which Shake ...
... Italian sun , who was not allowed even to look out of window at the pleasures of the young . As we have said before , it was not from a reasoner's determination to be subtle , but from the innate force of instinct with which Shake ...
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... Italy . The reign of Francis was short , and his life had been singularly unhappy . His abilities were above the average ; his temper was mild , and his intentions upright ; but he had been placed in positions from which it was ...
... Italy . The reign of Francis was short , and his life had been singularly unhappy . His abilities were above the average ; his temper was mild , and his intentions upright ; but he had been placed in positions from which it was ...
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