Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 90
... plays will probably admit their grandeur , but it is only those who have read and re - read the whole body of the works , who have analysed each play separately , compared it with its fellows , and treasured up its memory , who are able ...
... plays will probably admit their grandeur , but it is only those who have read and re - read the whole body of the works , who have analysed each play separately , compared it with its fellows , and treasured up its memory , who are able ...
Page 94
... play Shakspere enforces some great moral , that imprints itself upon one's soul . What more consummate picture of the misery and horror of jealousy than Othello ? Ĩago , that most loathsome of villains , spoke true words when he warned ...
... play Shakspere enforces some great moral , that imprints itself upon one's soul . What more consummate picture of the misery and horror of jealousy than Othello ? Ĩago , that most loathsome of villains , spoke true words when he warned ...
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... play , and his memory returned to the days when he had roamed as a boy through their gnarled trunks and beneath their green canopy , or lay at full length on the soft turf , listening to the choir of the little feathered foresters , or ...
... play , and his memory returned to the days when he had roamed as a boy through their gnarled trunks and beneath their green canopy , or lay at full length on the soft turf , listening to the choir of the little feathered foresters , or ...
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