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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... Poet's features was discernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone those features can be ascertained ? No man will affert one thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that ...
... Poet's features was discernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone those features can be ascertained ? No man will affert one thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that ...
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... poet's bays . -To his pretenfions of descent from Shakspeare , one might almost be induced to apply a ludicrous passage uttered by Fielding's Phaeton in the Suds : " by all the parish boys I'm flamm'd : " You the sun's Son , you rascal ...
... poet's bays . -To his pretenfions of descent from Shakspeare , one might almost be induced to apply a ludicrous passage uttered by Fielding's Phaeton in the Suds : " by all the parish boys I'm flamm'd : " You the sun's Son , you rascal ...
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... poet's anno- tators . It may be proper , indeed , to observe , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because ... poet must give way , and no reader will patiently endure to fee " Alcides beaten by his page . " -Inferior volat ...
... poet's anno- tators . It may be proper , indeed , to observe , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because ... poet must give way , and no reader will patiently endure to fee " Alcides beaten by his page . " -Inferior volat ...
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... poet's fame , " As is the morn - dew on the myrtle - leaf " To his grand fea . " We shall venture also to affert , that , on a minute scrutiny , every editor , in his turn , may be charged with omiffion of fome preferable reading ; so ...
... poet's fame , " As is the morn - dew on the myrtle - leaf " To his grand fea . " We shall venture also to affert , that , on a minute scrutiny , every editor , in his turn , may be charged with omiffion of fome preferable reading ; so ...
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... poet's family , ) that Mr. John Shakspeare in the former part of his life was in good circumstances , fuch persons being generally chosen into the corporation ; and from his being excused [ in 1579 ] to pay 4d . weekly , and at a ...
... poet's family , ) that Mr. John Shakspeare in the former part of his life was in good circumstances , fuch persons being generally chosen into the corporation ; and from his being excused [ in 1579 ] to pay 4d . weekly , and at a ...
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