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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... early life was incompatible with a course of edu- cation - whose contemporaries , friends and foes , nay , and himself likewise , agree in his want of what is usually called literature - whose mistakes from equivocal translations , and ...
... early life was incompatible with a course of edu- cation - whose contemporaries , friends and foes , nay , and himself likewise , agree in his want of what is usually called literature - whose mistakes from equivocal translations , and ...
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... earliest pieces , The Toy - shop : " A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy , and adds a sweetness to its pleasures ; she is a man's best companion in prosperity , and his only friend in adversity ; the carefullest preserver ...
... earliest pieces , The Toy - shop : " A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy , and adds a sweetness to its pleasures ; she is a man's best companion in prosperity , and his only friend in adversity ; the carefullest preserver ...
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... early ; but who can tell , whe- ther it may not be demonstrated by some critick or other , that a deviation from rule is peculiarly happy in an Essay on Shakspeare ! You have long known my opinion concerning the literary acquisitions of ...
... early ; but who can tell , whe- ther it may not be demonstrated by some critick or other , that a deviation from rule is peculiarly happy in an Essay on Shakspeare ! You have long known my opinion concerning the literary acquisitions of ...
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... early delineated : " ' Twas Greek at first , that Greek was Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English straid : " Thus ' twixt one Plutarch there's more difference , " Than i'th ' same Englishman return'd from France ...
... early delineated : " ' Twas Greek at first , that Greek was Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English straid : " Thus ' twixt one Plutarch there's more difference , " Than i'th ' same Englishman return'd from France ...
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... early folios , and not im- properly ; though it was published many years be- fore the death of Shakspeare , with his name in the title - page . Aulus Gellius informs us , that some plays are ascribed absolutely to Plautus , which he ...
... early folios , and not im- properly ; though it was published many years be- fore the death of Shakspeare , with his name in the title - page . Aulus Gellius informs us , that some plays are ascribed absolutely to Plautus , which he ...
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