The Plays of William Shakspeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, Volume 1AMS Press, 1900 |
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Page 15
... fubject at least as well written by Shakspeare . ) I had long endeavoured in vain to find out on what authority this relation was founded ; and have very lately difcovered that Mr. Rowe probably deri- ved his information from Dryden ...
... fubject at least as well written by Shakspeare . ) I had long endeavoured in vain to find out on what authority this relation was founded ; and have very lately difcovered that Mr. Rowe probably deri- ved his information from Dryden ...
Page 16
... fubject . The place agreed on for the difpute was Mr. Hales's chamber at Eton . A great many books were fent down by the enemies of this poet ; and on the appointed day my lord Falkland , Sir John Suckling , and all the persons of ...
... fubject . The place agreed on for the difpute was Mr. Hales's chamber at Eton . A great many books were fent down by the enemies of this poet ; and on the appointed day my lord Falkland , Sir John Suckling , and all the persons of ...
Page 48
... fubject ad- mitted ; namely , ocular proof . The players fay , in fub- stance , that Shakspeare had fuch a happiness of expreffion , that , as they collect from his papers , he had feldom occa- sion to alter the first words he fet down ...
... fubject ad- mitted ; namely , ocular proof . The players fay , in fub- stance , that Shakspeare had fuch a happiness of expreffion , that , as they collect from his papers , he had feldom occa- sion to alter the first words he fet down ...
Page 61
... fubject , that the title very often tells you , it is The Life of King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our historians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shakspeare has drawn of him ! His ...
... fubject , that the title very often tells you , it is The Life of King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our historians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shakspeare has drawn of him ! His ...
Page 124
... fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forced expressions , & c . if these are not to be af- cribed to the aforesaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it ...
... fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forced expressions , & c . if these are not to be af- cribed to the aforesaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it ...
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