The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volumes 1-2Collins & Hannay, 1826 |
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... writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst those of the other players , before some old plays , but with- out any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play ; and though I have inquired , I ...
... writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst those of the other players , before some old plays , but with- out any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play ; and though I have inquired , I ...
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... writing were , the people of his age , who began to grow wonderfully fond of diversions of this kind , could not but be highly pleased to see a genius arise amongst them of so pleasurable , so rich a vein , and so plentifully capable of ...
... writing were , the people of his age , who began to grow wonderfully fond of diversions of this kind , could not but be highly pleased to see a genius arise amongst them of so pleasurable , so rich a vein , and so plentifully capable of ...
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... write his epitaph , if he happened to outlive him ; and since he could not know what might be said of him when he was dead , he desired it might be done immediately upon which Shakespeare gave him these four verses : Ten in the hundred ...
... write his epitaph , if he happened to outlive him ; and since he could not know what might be said of him when he was dead , he desired it might be done immediately upon which Shakespeare gave him these four verses : Ten in the hundred ...
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... writing ( whatsoever he penned ) he never blotted out a line . My answer hath " been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought 66 46 66 a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but " for their ignorance , who ...
... writing ( whatsoever he penned ) he never blotted out a line . My answer hath " been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought 66 46 66 a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but " for their ignorance , who ...
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... writing he was most excellent in . There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical humours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the satire of the present age has taken the liberty to do , yet ...
... writing he was most excellent in . There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical humours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the satire of the present age has taken the liberty to do , yet ...
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