The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... copies of his plays ; the merits of his refpective editors , & c . & c . have been fo minutely investigated on former occafions , that any fresh advertisement of fimilar tendency might be confidered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
... copies of his plays ; the merits of his refpective editors , & c . & c . have been fo minutely investigated on former occafions , that any fresh advertisement of fimilar tendency might be confidered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
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... copies of it , in which the inanimate part of the compofition may be fafely followed . The mere outline in half of the plate that accompanies the finished one , will ferve to ascertain how far thefe fupplements have been adopted . To ...
... copies of it , in which the inanimate part of the compofition may be fafely followed . The mere outline in half of the plate that accompanies the finished one , will ferve to ascertain how far thefe fupplements have been adopted . To ...
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... copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they are all unlike each other , and convey no diftinct refemblance of the Such , we think , were ...
... copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they are all unlike each other , and convey no diftinct refemblance of the Such , we think , were ...
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... Vertue , in fhort , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his beft copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
... Vertue , in fhort , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his beft copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
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... copies of fixteen or feventeen of our author's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less cor . rupted editions of thefe very dramas be folely attributed to the monopolizing vigilance of its editors , Meffieurs Hemings ...
... copies of fixteen or feventeen of our author's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less cor . rupted editions of thefe very dramas be folely attributed to the monopolizing vigilance of its editors , Meffieurs Hemings ...
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