The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... present inftance ) by alien hands , almoft a century after the death of the perfon supposed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . Shakspeare was buried in ...
... present inftance ) by alien hands , almoft a century after the death of the perfon supposed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . Shakspeare was buried in ...
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... this occafion that he imitated Ronfard ; and it must be confeffed , with equal truth , that in the present inftance Ronfard had been a borrower from Anacreon . every editor in his turn is occafionally entitled to be ADVERTISEMENT . 31.
... this occafion that he imitated Ronfard ; and it must be confeffed , with equal truth , that in the present inftance Ronfard had been a borrower from Anacreon . every editor in his turn is occafionally entitled to be ADVERTISEMENT . 31.
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... present improved ftate of our dramatick ar- rangements ; for the propenfity of modern perform- ers to alter words , and occafionally introduce ideas incongruous with their author's plan , will not al- ways escape detection . In fuch ...
... present improved ftate of our dramatick ar- rangements ; for the propenfity of modern perform- ers to alter words , and occafionally introduce ideas incongruous with their author's plan , will not al- ways escape detection . In fuch ...
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... present hour , has preferved the Chefier and Coventry Myfteries , Tancred and Gifmund as originally written , the ancient play of Timon , the Witch of Middleton , with feveral older as well as coëval dramas ( exclufive of thofe in the ...
... present hour , has preferved the Chefier and Coventry Myfteries , Tancred and Gifmund as originally written , the ancient play of Timon , the Witch of Middleton , with feveral older as well as coëval dramas ( exclufive of thofe in the ...
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... present edition of Shakspeare , are , I believe , no where to be found ; and yet had their proofs efcaped cor- rection from an editor , the text of our author in many places would have been materially changed . And as all these changes ...
... present edition of Shakspeare , are , I believe , no where to be found ; and yet had their proofs efcaped cor- rection from an editor , the text of our author in many places would have been materially changed . And as all these changes ...
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