The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... - ceffors the fame gratification he has experienced in his humble endeavours to illuftrate the greatest poet the world ever knew . Staple Inn , May 2 , 1803 . ISAAC REED . i ADVERTISEMENT . WHEN I faid I would die a ADVERTISEMENT . vii.
... - ceffors the fame gratification he has experienced in his humble endeavours to illuftrate the greatest poet the world ever knew . Staple Inn , May 2 , 1803 . ISAAC REED . i ADVERTISEMENT . WHEN I faid I would die a ADVERTISEMENT . vii.
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... greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry . He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows , fallen into ill company , and amongst them , fome that made a frequent practice of deer- ftealing , engaged him more ...
... greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry . He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows , fallen into ill company , and amongst them , fome that made a frequent practice of deer- ftealing , engaged him more ...
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... greatest thoughts in the fineft expreffion , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first imagination , which himself with infinite labour and study could but hardly attain to . " I have preserved this paffage ...
... greatest thoughts in the fineft expreffion , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first imagination , which himself with infinite labour and study could but hardly attain to . " I have preserved this paffage ...
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... greatest princes , ftill in ftate . " In The Return from Parnaffus , 1606 , Jonfon is faid to be " fo flow an enditer , that he were better betake himself to his old trade of bricklaying . " The fame piece furnishes us with the earliest ...
... greatest princes , ftill in ftate . " In The Return from Parnaffus , 1606 , Jonfon is faid to be " fo flow an enditer , that he were better betake himself to his old trade of bricklaying . " The fame piece furnishes us with the earliest ...
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... greatest scholars in Europe . " See a long character of him in Clarendon's Life , Vol . I. p . 52. MALONE . tion of our poet . " He was , " fays Lord Clarendon , He had the good fortune to gather an eftate equal to his oc- cafion ...
... greatest scholars in Europe . " See a long character of him in Clarendon's Life , Vol . I. p . 52. MALONE . tion of our poet . " He was , " fays Lord Clarendon , He had the good fortune to gather an eftate equal to his oc- cafion ...
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