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of a careless theatre were seconded by those of as ignorant a press . The
integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the
innocence of females nursed in a camp and educated in a bagnio . As often
therefore as we are ...
of a careless theatre were seconded by those of as ignorant a press . The
integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the
innocence of females nursed in a camp and educated in a bagnio . As often
therefore as we are ...
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... and every provincial vulgarism and offence against established grammar , that
may be met with in the coëval productions of irregular humourists and ignorant fe
& taries and buffoons , we may aver that every casual combination of syllables ...
... and every provincial vulgarism and offence against established grammar , that
may be met with in the coëval productions of irregular humourists and ignorant fe
& taries and buffoons , we may aver that every casual combination of syllables ...
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This office , if any where , was vested in the printer , whọ transferred it to his
compositors ; and these worthies discharged their part of the trust with a
proportionate mixture of ignorance and inattention . We do not wish to soften our
expression ...
This office , if any where , was vested in the printer , whọ transferred it to his
compositors ; and these worthies discharged their part of the trust with a
proportionate mixture of ignorance and inattention . We do not wish to soften our
expression ...
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... as to screen an author from the charge of ignorance or inattention . The leaf
appropriated to one volume , is sometimes shuffled into the corresponding page
of another ; and sometimes the faulty leaf is withdrawn , and 10 other substituted
in ...
... as to screen an author from the charge of ignorance or inattention . The leaf
appropriated to one volume , is sometimes shuffled into the corresponding page
of another ; and sometimes the faulty leaf is withdrawn , and 10 other substituted
in ...
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... have insinuated themselves into , and been mixed with his own writings ; so
that his not copying at least something from them , may be an arguinent of his
never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a
disadvantage ...
... have insinuated themselves into , and been mixed with his own writings ; so
that his not copying at least something from them , may be an arguinent of his
never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a
disadvantage ...
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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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