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Edmund Fuller. Had we lived then we would have found no time for con- templation or amusement . We would have known a desperate life of constant conflict with the elements and with preying animals . If a man hunted , fished , warded off ...
Edmund Fuller. Had we lived then we would have found no time for con- templation or amusement . We would have known a desperate life of constant conflict with the elements and with preying animals . If a man hunted , fished , warded off ...
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... lived from 525 to 456 B.C. During this period occurred the great Persian wars and as a young man Aeschylus several times distinguished himself in combat . Throughout his life- time , even when his great plays had captured the ...
... lived from 525 to 456 B.C. During this period occurred the great Persian wars and as a young man Aeschylus several times distinguished himself in combat . Throughout his life- time , even when his great plays had captured the ...
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... lived and worked together in the same quarters . It was Thomas Kyd who , under torture , gave the evidence which resulted in the last warrant issued against Marlowe . The other forerunners or contemporaries of Shakespeare are too ...
... lived and worked together in the same quarters . It was Thomas Kyd who , under torture , gave the evidence which resulted in the last warrant issued against Marlowe . The other forerunners or contemporaries of Shakespeare are too ...
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