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... of the same kind of thought , and when he does so we have no doubt that it is great . Sometimes he makes it even obscure , whereas Tennyson makes it so simple that he deceives us as to its depth . So much 8 THE PLEASURE OF READING .
... of the same kind of thought , and when he does so we have no doubt that it is great . Sometimes he makes it even obscure , whereas Tennyson makes it so simple that he deceives us as to its depth . So much 8 THE PLEASURE OF READING .
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... doubt , is that for enduring satisfaction in poetry we want strength . Browning , of course , has splendid strength which never fails or falters ; but Wordsworth , too , is strong . If he expresses , as he sometimes does , great ...
... doubt , is that for enduring satisfaction in poetry we want strength . Browning , of course , has splendid strength which never fails or falters ; but Wordsworth , too , is strong . If he expresses , as he sometimes does , great ...
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... doubt , French criticism would condemn it . But we can imagine Dumas , Meurice and the theatre manager in consultation . Hamlet was to be produced . So- and - so would play it excellently . The Ducis version ? Quite out - moded . One ...
... doubt , French criticism would condemn it . But we can imagine Dumas , Meurice and the theatre manager in consultation . Hamlet was to be produced . So- and - so would play it excellently . The Ducis version ? Quite out - moded . One ...
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... doubt , to back it . Well , in this instance one would certainly not recommend prose . But does blank verse serve Rostand much better than alexandrines serve Shakespeare ? Let us pick out a passage or two . Cyrano to his friend : 66 ...
... doubt , to back it . Well , in this instance one would certainly not recommend prose . But does blank verse serve Rostand much better than alexandrines serve Shakespeare ? Let us pick out a passage or two . Cyrano to his friend : 66 ...
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... doubt ( Shakespeare aban- doned it after a little ) . But note the effect of the English couplet with which this passage winds up . Does it not give the whole affair a most desirable fillip ? A few pages earlier , the translators ...
... doubt ( Shakespeare aban- doned it after a little ) . But note the effect of the English couplet with which this passage winds up . Does it not give the whole affair a most desirable fillip ? A few pages earlier , the translators ...
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