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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... Shak- speare . Sometimes a very little matter detects a forgery . You may remember a play called The Double Fals- hood , which Mr. Theobald was desirous of palming upon the world for a posthumous one of Shakspeare : and I see it is ...
... Shak- speare . Sometimes a very little matter detects a forgery . You may remember a play called The Double Fals- hood , which Mr. Theobald was desirous of palming upon the world for a posthumous one of Shakspeare : and I see it is ...
Page 37
... Shak- speare ; or rather , that he particularly had the ho- nour of introducing them to the notice of his countrymen . For instance , -Rumour painted full of tongues , gives us a prologue to one of the parts of Henry the Fourth ; and ...
... Shak- speare ; or rather , that he particularly had the ho- nour of introducing them to the notice of his countrymen . For instance , -Rumour painted full of tongues , gives us a prologue to one of the parts of Henry the Fourth ; and ...
Page 45
... Shak- speare was perfectly acquainted with the sentiments of the ancients on the subject of inchantments . " The original lines are these : " Auræque , & venti , montesque , amnesque , lacusque , " Diique omnes nemorum , diique omnes ...
... Shak- speare was perfectly acquainted with the sentiments of the ancients on the subject of inchantments . " The original lines are these : " Auræque , & venti , montesque , amnesque , lacusque , " Diique omnes nemorum , diique omnes ...
Page 47
... Shak- speare : 66 -- He was a man " Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking " Himself with princes ; one that by suggestion " Ty'd all the kingdom . Simony was fair play . " His own opinion was his law : i'th ' presence " He would say ...
... Shak- speare : 66 -- He was a man " Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking " Himself with princes ; one that by suggestion " Ty'd all the kingdom . Simony was fair play . " His own opinion was his law : i'th ' presence " He would say ...
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... Shak- speare should be borrowed for the benefit of the bookseller ; and by the way , as probably for a play as a poem : but modern cri- ticks may be surprised perhaps at the complaint of John Hall , that " certayne chapters of the ...
... Shak- speare should be borrowed for the benefit of the bookseller ; and by the way , as probably for a play as a poem : but modern cri- ticks may be surprised perhaps at the complaint of John Hall , that " certayne chapters of the ...
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