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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... allowed it to be a genuine picture of Shakspeare , -It is natural to fuppofe that the mutilated state of it prevented either of their Lordships from becoming its pur- chafer . How far the report on which Mr. Wilfon's nar- ratives ...
... allowed it to be a genuine picture of Shakspeare , -It is natural to fuppofe that the mutilated state of it prevented either of their Lordships from becoming its pur- chafer . How far the report on which Mr. Wilfon's nar- ratives ...
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... allowed to be reputa- ble . This remark , however , ought not to stand unfupported by a paffage in The Microcosmos of John Davies of Hereford , 4to . 1605 , p . 215 , where , af- ter having indulged himself in a long and fevere ftrain ...
... allowed to be reputa- ble . This remark , however , ought not to stand unfupported by a paffage in The Microcosmos of John Davies of Hereford , 4to . 1605 , p . 215 , where , af- ter having indulged himself in a long and fevere ftrain ...
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... allowed ( as feveral undoubted originals of old Ben are extant ) - are all good , As long as all thefe goods are no worfe us'd ; ] So , in our author's Othello : " Where virtue is , thefe are moft virtuous . " that an authentick head of ...
... allowed ( as feveral undoubted originals of old Ben are extant ) - are all good , As long as all thefe goods are no worfe us'd ; ] So , in our author's Othello : " Where virtue is , thefe are moft virtuous . " that an authentick head of ...
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... allowed to be the original , and the painting a mere copy from it , the admiffion of this fact would militate in full force against the au- thenticity of every other anonymous and undated portrait from which a wretched old engraving had ...
... allowed to be the original , and the painting a mere copy from it , the admiffion of this fact would militate in full force against the au- thenticity of every other anonymous and undated portrait from which a wretched old engraving had ...
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... allowed ; and this obfervation would have carried weight with it , had the lines in queftion been anonymous . But the fubfcription of Ben Jonfon's name was a circumftance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an ...
... allowed ; and this obfervation would have carried weight with it , had the lines in queftion been anonymous . But the fubfcription of Ben Jonfon's name was a circumftance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an ...
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