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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... stage ! ' - whose memory he honoured almost to idolatry : " and conscious of the worth of ancient literature , like any other man on the same occasion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . " Jealousy ...
... stage ! ' - whose memory he honoured almost to idolatry : " and conscious of the worth of ancient literature , like any other man on the same occasion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . " Jealousy ...
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... stage , is very strong to the purpose , 66 Nature only helpt him , for looke thorow " This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate ...
... stage , is very strong to the purpose , 66 Nature only helpt him , for looke thorow " This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate ...
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... stage . Were this a proper place for such a disquisition , I could give you many cases of this kind . We are sent for instance to Cinthio for the plot of Measure for Measure , and Shakspeare's judgment hath been attacked for some ...
... stage . Were this a proper place for such a disquisition , I could give you many cases of this kind . We are sent for instance to Cinthio for the plot of Measure for Measure , and Shakspeare's judgment hath been attacked for some ...
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... stage : and Cupid's arrows appear with their characteristick differences in Surrey , in Sidney , in Spenser , and every sonnetteer of the time . Nay , their very names were exhibited long before in The Romaunt of the Rose : a work , you ...
... stage : and Cupid's arrows appear with their characteristick differences in Surrey , in Sidney , in Spenser , and every sonnetteer of the time . Nay , their very names were exhibited long before in The Romaunt of the Rose : a work , you ...
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... stage so well ; but unfortunately , Cavendish in his Life of Wolsey , calls it , an excellent Interlude in Latine . About the same time it was exhibited in German at Nurembugrh , by the celebrated Hans- sach , the shoemaker . " But a ...
... stage so well ; but unfortunately , Cavendish in his Life of Wolsey , calls it , an excellent Interlude in Latine . About the same time it was exhibited in German at Nurembugrh , by the celebrated Hans- sach , the shoemaker . " But a ...
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