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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... perfon represented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his refemblance was moft likely to have been fecured . • It has ...
... perfon represented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his refemblance was moft likely to have been fecured . • It has ...
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... perfon- age of diftinction , and might therefore have belonged to the celebrated Earl whom Shakspeare had pre- viously complimented by the dedication of his Venus and Adonis . Surely , it is not unreasonable to fup- pofe , that a ...
... perfon- age of diftinction , and might therefore have belonged to the celebrated Earl whom Shakspeare had pre- viously complimented by the dedication of his Venus and Adonis . Surely , it is not unreasonable to fup- pofe , that a ...
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... perfon it was defigned for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they ...
... perfon it was defigned for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they ...
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... perfons engraved by Houbraken , are feveral imaginary ones , befide Ben Jonfon's and Otway's ; and old Mr. Langford ... perfon fuppofed to be reprefented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of ...
... perfons engraved by Houbraken , are feveral imaginary ones , befide Ben Jonfon's and Otway's ; and old Mr. Langford ... perfon fuppofed to be reprefented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of ...
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... perfon , and in another place . Though our adoptions have been flightly men- tioned already , our fourth impreffion of the Plays of Shakspeare muft not iffue into the world without particular and ample acknowledgements of the be- nefit ...
... perfon , and in another place . Though our adoptions have been flightly men- tioned already , our fourth impreffion of the Plays of Shakspeare muft not iffue into the world without particular and ample acknowledgements of the be- nefit ...
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