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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... Jonfon , " who in the following lines has borne the most ample tefti- mony to the verifimilitude of a portrait which will now be recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , to the publick notice : The tradition that ...
... Jonfon , " who in the following lines has borne the most ample tefti- mony to the verifimilitude of a portrait which will now be recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , to the publick notice : The tradition that ...
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... Jonfon , who , on an occafion like this , would hardly have ventured to affert what it was in the power of many of his readers to contradict . When will evidence half fo conclufive be produced in favour of the Davenantico - Bettertonian ...
... Jonfon , who , on an occafion like this , would hardly have ventured to affert what it was in the power of many of his readers to contradict . When will evidence half fo conclufive be produced in favour of the Davenantico - Bettertonian ...
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... Jonfon was lately bought at an obfcure auc- tion by Mr. Ritfon of Gray's Inn , and might once have been companion to the portrait of Shakspeare thus fortunately reftored , after having been lost to the publick for a century and a half ...
... Jonfon was lately bought at an obfcure auc- tion by Mr. Ritfon of Gray's Inn , and might once have been companion to the portrait of Shakspeare thus fortunately reftored , after having been lost to the publick for a century and a half ...
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... Jonfon's name was a circumftance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an encomium which , however open to dispute , appears to have efcaped contradiction , either metrical or profaick , from the furviving ...
... Jonfon's name was a circumftance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an encomium which , however open to dispute , appears to have efcaped contradiction , either metrical or profaick , from the furviving ...
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... Jonfon began with a 8 from the Earl of Southampton , ] Of this amiable no- bleman fuch memoirs as I have been able to collect , may be found in the tenth volume , [ i . e . of Mr. Malone's edition ] pre- fixed to the poem of Venus and ...
... Jonfon began with a 8 from the Earl of Southampton , ] Of this amiable no- bleman fuch memoirs as I have been able to collect , may be found in the tenth volume , [ i . e . of Mr. Malone's edition ] pre- fixed to the poem of Venus and ...
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