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... interesting people enough to be met with , but there were no Boswells . Literary curiosity was a thing forgotten , although the pre- ceding generation had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster ...
... interesting people enough to be met with , but there were no Boswells . Literary curiosity was a thing forgotten , although the pre- ceding generation had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster ...
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... interesting to them as London , or more interesting . The novels that pleased best were those in which the scenes re- vealed some forest of palm - trees dividing the Empire of Russia from the Kingdom of Peru , some wild strand where the ...
... interesting to them as London , or more interesting . The novels that pleased best were those in which the scenes re- vealed some forest of palm - trees dividing the Empire of Russia from the Kingdom of Peru , some wild strand where the ...
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... interesting as a letter of any dying soldier to any lady he had loved , and that it is obviously written to please readers who took a great deal more interest in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in ...
... interesting as a letter of any dying soldier to any lady he had loved , and that it is obviously written to please readers who took a great deal more interest in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in ...
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... interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of the Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by ...
... interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of the Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by ...
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... century . If it were my duty here to call attention to what is good in those interesting writers of the age of Charles , the task would be an easy and a gratifying one . But I desire to keep close to Death of Shakespeare . 37.
... century . If it were my duty here to call attention to what is good in those interesting writers of the age of Charles , the task would be an easy and a gratifying one . But I desire to keep close to Death of Shakespeare . 37.
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