The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the man who doubts of the learning of Shakspeare , hath none of his own : " the latter , above regarding the attack in his private ca ...
... John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the man who doubts of the learning of Shakspeare , hath none of his own : " the latter , above regarding the attack in his private ca ...
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... John Dorat . Many other trans- lators appeared before the end of the century : and particularly the Ode in question was made popular by Buchanan , whose pieces were soon to be met with in almost every modern language . 2 It was ...
... John Dorat . Many other trans- lators appeared before the end of the century : and particularly the Ode in question was made popular by Buchanan , whose pieces were soon to be met with in almost every modern language . 2 It was ...
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... John Davies in his Pleasant Descant upon English Proverbs , printed with his Scourge of Folly , about 1612 : " Do well and have well ! -neyther so still : " For some are good doers , whose havings are ill . ” and Daniel the historian ...
... John Davies in his Pleasant Descant upon English Proverbs , printed with his Scourge of Folly , about 1612 : " Do well and have well ! -neyther so still : " For some are good doers , whose havings are ill . ” and Daniel the historian ...
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... John Taylor , and a whole poem upon it into the bargain . You perceive , my dear sir , how vague and inde- terminate such arguments must be : for in fact this sweet swan of Thames , as Mr. Pope calls him , hath more scraps of Latin ...
... John Taylor , and a whole poem upon it into the bargain . You perceive , my dear sir , how vague and inde- terminate such arguments must be : for in fact this sweet swan of Thames , as Mr. Pope calls him , hath more scraps of Latin ...
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... John Higgins , one of the assistants in The Mirrour for Magistrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more conversant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than ...
... John Higgins , one of the assistants in The Mirrour for Magistrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more conversant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than ...
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