The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... never attempted any , before he had consulted it . He was once , indeed , offered a large fragment of the first folio ; but in a few days he returned it , with an assurance that he did not perceive any decided superiority it could boast ...
... never attempted any , before he had consulted it . He was once , indeed , offered a large fragment of the first folio ; but in a few days he returned it , with an assurance that he did not perceive any decided superiority it could boast ...
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... never having read them . Whether his igno- rance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or no , may admit of a dispute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not improbable but that the re ...
... never having read them . Whether his igno- rance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or no , may admit of a dispute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not improbable but that the re ...
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... never yet been impeached ; and it is not very probable that a ballad should be forged , from which an undiscovered wag could derive no triumph over antiquarian credulity . STEEVENS . According to Mr. Capell , this ballad came originally ...
... never yet been impeached ; and it is not very probable that a ballad should be forged , from which an undiscovered wag could derive no triumph over antiquarian credulity . STEEVENS . According to Mr. Capell , this ballad came originally ...
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... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.3 I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he ...
... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.3 I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he ...
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... never . Dryden , we are told by Pope , concurred with Mr. Rowe in thinking Jonson's posthumous verses on our author sparing and invidious . - See also Mr. Steevens's note on those verses . Before Shakspeare's death Ben's envious ...
... never . Dryden , we are told by Pope , concurred with Mr. Rowe in thinking Jonson's posthumous verses on our author sparing and invidious . - See also Mr. Steevens's note on those verses . Before Shakspeare's death Ben's envious ...
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