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and paper than have hitherto been allotted to any octavo edition of Shakspeare .
Justice nevertheless requires us to subjoin , that had an undoubted picture of our
author been attainable , the Booksellers would most readily have paid for the ...
and paper than have hitherto been allotted to any octavo edition of Shakspeare .
Justice nevertheless requires us to subjoin , that had an undoubted picture of our
author been attainable , the Booksellers would most readily have paid for the ...
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This office Mr. John Shakspeare filled in 1569 , as appears from the following
extracts from the books of the corporation , with which I have been favoured by
the Rev. Mr. Davenport , Vicar of Stratford - upon - Avon . 6. Jan. 10 , in the 6th
year of ...
This office Mr. John Shakspeare filled in 1569 , as appears from the following
extracts from the books of the corporation , with which I have been favoured by
the Rev. Mr. Davenport , Vicar of Stratford - upon - Avon . 6. Jan. 10 , in the 6th
year of ...
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... his poetry , be loft , yet it is said to have been so very bitter , that it redoubled
The following is the infcription on her tomb - ftone in the church of Stratford : “
Here lyeth interred the body of Anne , wife of William Shakspeare , who departed
this ...
... his poetry , be loft , yet it is said to have been so very bitter , that it redoubled
The following is the infcription on her tomb - ftone in the church of Stratford : “
Here lyeth interred the body of Anne , wife of William Shakspeare , who departed
this ...
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He remembered to have heard from several old people at Stratford the story of
Shakspeare's robbing Sir Thomas Lucy's park ; and their account of it agreed with
Mr. Rowe's , with this addition , that the ballad written against Sir Thomas Lucy by
...
He remembered to have heard from several old people at Stratford the story of
Shakspeare's robbing Sir Thomas Lucy's park ; and their account of it agreed with
Mr. Rowe's , with this addition , that the ballad written against Sir Thomas Lucy by
...
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... more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the first play
he wrote ; ? it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of
this kind , to see and know what was the first effay of a fancy like Shakspeare's .
... more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the first play
he wrote ; ? it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of
this kind , to see and know what was the first effay of a fancy like Shakspeare's .
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson (écrivain) |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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