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Page xii
... Meffieurs Hemings and Condell ? Finding they had been deprived of some
tragedies and comedies which , when opportunity offered , they designed to
publish for their own emolument , they redoubled their solicitude to withhold the
reft ...
... Meffieurs Hemings and Condell ? Finding they had been deprived of some
tragedies and comedies which , when opportunity offered , they designed to
publish for their own emolument , they redoubled their solicitude to withhold the
reft ...
Page xviii
Here we perceive that Fate , the old post - horse of tragedy , has been saddled to
expedite intelligence which was meant to be delayed till the necessary moment
of its disclosure . Nay , further : the prompter's book being thus corrupted , on the
...
Here we perceive that Fate , the old post - horse of tragedy , has been saddled to
expedite intelligence which was meant to be delayed till the necessary moment
of its disclosure . Nay , further : the prompter's book being thus corrupted , on the
...
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The tragedy of Hamlet in the first edition , ( now extant ,. ) that of 1604 , is said to
be enlarged to almost as much again as it was , according to the true and perfect
copy . ” What is Vol . I. E p . 205 . " and such like , which were ridiculous . But OF ...
The tragedy of Hamlet in the first edition , ( now extant ,. ) that of 1604 , is said to
be enlarged to almost as much again as it was , according to the true and perfect
copy . ” What is Vol . I. E p . 205 . " and such like , which were ridiculous . But OF ...
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Pericles , Prince of Tyre , 1609 , Sir John Oldcastle , 1600 , The London Prodigal ,
1605 , and The Yorkshire Tragedy , 1608 ; the three others which they inserted ,
Low trine , i595 , Lord Cromwell , 1602 , and The Puritan , 1607 , having been ...
Pericles , Prince of Tyre , 1609 , Sir John Oldcastle , 1600 , The London Prodigal ,
1605 , and The Yorkshire Tragedy , 1608 ; the three others which they inserted ,
Low trine , i595 , Lord Cromwell , 1602 , and The Puritan , 1607 , having been ...
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him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal true in it : but I believe it may be as well
expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the
Greek models , ( or indeed translated them , ) in his epistle to Augustus : natură ...
him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal true in it : but I believe it may be as well
expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the
Greek models , ( or indeed translated them , ) in his epistle to Augustus : natură ...
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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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