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->...condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry -- or a long poem, alas -- with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamor acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anyone can flip through a ''Midsummer-Night's Dream'' or ''Romeo and Juliet'', or, perhaps, the ''Sonnets'' and take his pick.

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->...condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry {{poetry}} -- or a long poem, alas -- with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamor acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anyone can flip through a ''Midsummer-Night's Dream'' or ''Romeo and Juliet'', or, perhaps, the ''Sonnets'' and take his pick.
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->''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'', that is TheQuestion\\

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->''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'', that is TheQuestion\\ComicBook/TheQuestion\\
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-->''Literature/PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

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-->''Literature/PaleFire'' -->-- ''Literature/PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])



"[[MageTheHeroDiscovered And by Opposing End Them]]"
-->''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''

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"[[MageTheHeroDiscovered "[[ComicBook/MageTheHeroDiscovered And by Opposing End Them]]"
-->''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''-->-- ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''
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-->''PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

->''ToBeOrNotToBe'', that is TheQuestion\\
Whether 'tis ''NoblerInTheMind'' to suffer the ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' of ''OutrageousFortune''\\

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-->''PaleFire'' -->''Literature/PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

->''ToBeOrNotToBe'', ->''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'', that is TheQuestion\\
Whether 'tis ''NoblerInTheMind'' to suffer the ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' of ''OutrageousFortune''\\''Film/OutrageousFortune''\\
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[[MageTheHeroDiscovered And by Opposing End Them]]"

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[[MageTheHeroDiscovered "[[MageTheHeroDiscovered And by Opposing End Them]]"
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Better, I think


And by "[[Music/DaichiHasemi Opposing End Them]]"

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[[MageTheHeroDiscovered And by "[[Music/DaichiHasemi Opposing End Them]]"
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The Question is cheating, to be sure


-->''PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

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-->''PaleFire'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])iii]])

->''ToBeOrNotToBe'', that is TheQuestion\\
Whether 'tis ''NoblerInTheMind'' to suffer the ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' of ''OutrageousFortune''\\
Or to take arms against ''Literature/ASeaOfTroubles''\\
And by "[[Music/DaichiHasemi Opposing End Them]]"
-->''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''
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-->''PaleFire'' (''{{Timon of Athens}}'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

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-->''PaleFire'' (''{{Timon of Athens}}'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

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Click ->...condemn the edit button fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry -- or a long poem, alas -- with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamor acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to start this new page. the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anyone can flip through a ''Midsummer-Night's Dream'' or ''Romeo and Juliet'', or, perhaps, the ''Sonnets'' and take his pick.
-->''PaleFire'' (''{{Timon of Athens}}'' [[HypocriticalHumor IV.iii]])

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