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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

CHAPTER XIII
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Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the element which it contemplates.
In a note on the Spanish Tragedy in the Specimens, I have said that there is nothing in the undoubted plays of Jonson which would authorize us to suppose that he could have supplied the additions to Hieronymo.

I suspected the agency of some more potent spirit.

I thought that Webster might have furnished them.

They seemed full of that wild, solemn, preternatural cast of grief which bewilders us in the Duchess of Malfy.

On second consideration, I think this a hasty criticism.


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