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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... prefent Editor , who has , with the aid of an able and vigilant affiftant , and a careful printer , endeavoured to fulfil the truft repofed in him , as well as continued ill health and depreffed fpirits would permit . By a memorandum in ...
... prefent Editor , who has , with the aid of an able and vigilant affiftant , and a careful printer , endeavoured to fulfil the truft repofed in him , as well as continued ill health and depreffed fpirits would permit . By a memorandum in ...
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... prefent Editor their affiftance , which he fhould thankfully have received , had he confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in fome inftances thought too much ...
... prefent Editor their affiftance , which he fhould thankfully have received , had he confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in fome inftances thought too much ...
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... prefent Editor of Shak- Speare may urge a kindred apology in defence of an opinion hazarded in his Prefatory Advertisement ; for when he declared his disbelief in the existence of a genuine likeness of our great Dramatick Writer , he ...
... prefent Editor of Shak- Speare may urge a kindred apology in defence of an opinion hazarded in his Prefatory Advertisement ; for when he declared his disbelief in the existence of a genuine likeness of our great Dramatick Writer , he ...
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... prefent age be disgufted at the ftiff garb of our au- thor , they may readily turn their eyes afide , and feaft them on the more eafy and elegant fuit of clothes provided for him by his modern tailors , Meffieurs Zouft , Vertue ...
... prefent age be disgufted at the ftiff garb of our au- thor , they may readily turn their eyes afide , and feaft them on the more eafy and elegant fuit of clothes provided for him by his modern tailors , Meffieurs Zouft , Vertue ...
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... prefent edition of his plays . The undifguifed fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or fome other accident , has become little better than the " fhadow of a ...
... prefent edition of his plays . The undifguifed fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or fome other accident , has become little better than the " fhadow of a ...
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