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Page 19
... Rather of the powerful and beautiful fairy Melusina , who had every talent and every charm under heaver but once in so many hours was fated to become serpent . No , I return to my first position . It is not by exposing INTRODUCTION . 19.
... Rather of the powerful and beautiful fairy Melusina , who had every talent and every charm under heaver but once in so many hours was fated to become serpent . No , I return to my first position . It is not by exposing INTRODUCTION . 19.
Page 30
... charms and virtues : not only are they what we could wish to be , or ought to be , but what we per- suade ourselves we might be , or would be , under a different and a happier state of things , and , per- haps , some time or other may ...
... charms and virtues : not only are they what we could wish to be , or ought to be , but what we per- suade ourselves we might be , or would be , under a different and a happier state of things , and , per- haps , some time or other may ...
Page 37
... charm had been lost ; she could not have borne the approximation : some shadow from the overpowering blackness of his character must have passed over the sun- bright purity of hers . For observe that Iago's disbelief in the virtue of ...
... charm had been lost ; she could not have borne the approximation : some shadow from the overpowering blackness of his character must have passed over the sun- bright purity of hers . For observe that Iago's disbelief in the virtue of ...
Page 46
... especially dramatic writers , have found ample food for wit and satiric delineation in the littleness of feminine spite and rivalry , in the mean spirit of competition , the petty jealousy of superior charms , the 46 INTRODUCTION .
... especially dramatic writers , have found ample food for wit and satiric delineation in the littleness of feminine spite and rivalry , in the mean spirit of competition , the petty jealousy of superior charms , the 46 INTRODUCTION .
Page 47
... charms , the mutual slander and mistrust , the transient leagues of folly or selfishness miscalled friendship- the result of an education which makes vanity the ruling principle , and of a false position in society . Shakspeare , who ...
... charms , the mutual slander and mistrust , the transient leagues of folly or selfishness miscalled friendship- the result of an education which makes vanity the ruling principle , and of a false position in society . Shakspeare , who ...
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