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The late Sir Joshua Rcynolds indeed once suggested , that whatever person it
was designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished .
Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been
made from ...
The late Sir Joshua Rcynolds indeed once suggested , that whatever person it
was designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished .
Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been
made from ...
Page iii
Aubrey . in short , was a dupe to every wag who chose to pra & ise on his credu .
lity ; and would most certainly have believed the person who should have told
him that Shakspeare himself was a natural son of Queen Elizabeth . Mr. T.
Warton ...
Aubrey . in short , was a dupe to every wag who chose to pra & ise on his credu .
lity ; and would most certainly have believed the person who should have told
him that Shakspeare himself was a natural son of Queen Elizabeth . Mr. T.
Warton ...
Page iv
Among the heads of illustrious persons engraved by Houbraken , are several
imaginary ones , beside Ben Jonson's and Otway's ; and old Mr. Langford
positively asserted that , in the same collection , the grandfather of Cock the
auctioneer ...
Among the heads of illustrious persons engraved by Houbraken , are several
imaginary ones , beside Ben Jonson's and Otway's ; and old Mr. Langford
positively asserted that , in the same collection , the grandfather of Cock the
auctioneer ...
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The same advantage may be gained by opportunities of appropriating to
ourselves what was originally said by another person , and in another place .
Though our adoptions have been slightly mentioned already , our fourth
impression of the ...
The same advantage may be gained by opportunities of appropriating to
ourselves what was originally said by another person , and in another place .
Though our adoptions have been slightly mentioned already , our fourth
impression of the ...
Page xxiii
Nor is it at all improbable that the person who furnished the revision of the first
folio , wrote a very obscure hand , and was much cramped for room , as the
margin of this book is always narrow , Such being the case , he might often have
been ...
Nor is it at all improbable that the person who furnished the revision of the first
folio , wrote a very obscure hand , and was much cramped for room , as the
margin of this book is always narrow , Such being the case , he might often have
been ...
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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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