The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 18J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer , which formerly belonged to Dr. Gabriel Harvey , ( the antagonist of Nash ) who , in his own hand - writing , has fet down Hamlet , as a performance with which he was well acquainted , in the year ...
... copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer , which formerly belonged to Dr. Gabriel Harvey , ( the antagonist of Nash ) who , in his own hand - writing , has fet down Hamlet , as a performance with which he was well acquainted , in the year ...
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... copy now extant , is faid to be enlarged to almoft as much againe as it was . ' Gabriel Harvey printed at the end of the year 1592 , Foure Letters and certaine Sonnetts , especially touching Robert Greene ' in one of which his Arcadia ...
... copy now extant , is faid to be enlarged to almoft as much againe as it was . ' Gabriel Harvey printed at the end of the year 1592 , Foure Letters and certaine Sonnetts , especially touching Robert Greene ' in one of which his Arcadia ...
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... copy . Perhaps , therefore , many of its abfurdities , as well as beauties , arofe from the quantity added after it was firft written . Our poet might have been more attentive to the amplification than the coherence of his fable . The ...
... copy . Perhaps , therefore , many of its abfurdities , as well as beauties , arofe from the quantity added after it was firft written . Our poet might have been more attentive to the amplification than the coherence of his fable . The ...
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... copied from the elder Christian poets . FARMER . 8 The extravagant- ] i . e . got out of his bounds . WARBURTON . So , in Nobody and Somebody , 1598 : " - they took me up for a firavagant . " Shakspeare imputes the fame effect to ...
... copied from the elder Christian poets . FARMER . 8 The extravagant- ] i . e . got out of his bounds . WARBURTON . So , in Nobody and Somebody , 1598 : " - they took me up for a firavagant . " Shakspeare imputes the fame effect to ...
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... copies thus : your father left a father ; That father , his ; - . On which the editor Mr. Tileobald thus defcants : -This fup- pofed refinement is from Mr. Pope , but all the editions elfe , that I have met with , old and modern , read ...
... copies thus : your father left a father ; That father , his ; - . On which the editor Mr. Tileobald thus defcants : -This fup- pofed refinement is from Mr. Pope , but all the editions elfe , that I have met with , old and modern , read ...
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