The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page xiv
... King Henry VII . THEOBALD . The chief magistrate of the Body Corporate of Stratford , now diftin- guished by the title of Mayor , was in the early charters called the High Bailiff . This office Mr. John Shak fpeare filled in 1569 . It ...
... King Henry VII . THEOBALD . The chief magistrate of the Body Corporate of Stratford , now diftin- guished by the title of Mayor , was in the early charters called the High Bailiff . This office Mr. John Shak fpeare filled in 1569 . It ...
Page xvii
... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the acceffion of the latter of thofe two princes to the crown of England . Whate er the particular times of his writing were , the ...
... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the acceffion of the latter of thofe two princes to the crown of England . Whate er the particular times of his writing were , the ...
Page xxvii
... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our hiftorians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shakspeare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the fame with the story ; one * one ...
... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our hiftorians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shakspeare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the fame with the story ; one * one ...
Page xxviii
... king praying over him . There is fo much terror in one , fo much tenderness and moving piety in the other , as muft touch any one who is capable either of fear or pity . In his Henry the Eighth , that prince is drawn with that greatnefs ...
... king praying over him . There is fo much terror in one , fo much tenderness and moving piety in the other , as muft touch any one who is capable either of fear or pity . In his Henry the Eighth , that prince is drawn with that greatnefs ...
Page xxx
... King is murdered , in the fecond act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ftrongest motions to our fouls that they are capable of . I ...
... King is murdered , in the fecond act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ftrongest motions to our fouls that they are capable of . I ...
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