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But by what means are fuch direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no veftige of the Poet's features was difcernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone thofe features can be ...
But by what means are fuch direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no veftige of the Poet's features was difcernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone thofe features can be ...
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... which are conftant indications of mifchievous agency , the engraver's ruff would have accorded better with the pursuits of his necromantick countryman , the celebrated Doctor Fauftus . In the mean while it is afferted by every ...
... which are conftant indications of mifchievous agency , the engraver's ruff would have accorded better with the pursuits of his necromantick countryman , the celebrated Doctor Fauftus . In the mean while it is afferted by every ...
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In the mean while it is afferted by every adequate judge , that the coincidences between the picture and the print under confideration , are too strong and too numerous to have been the effects of chance . And yet the period at which ...
In the mean while it is afferted by every adequate judge , that the coincidences between the picture and the print under confideration , are too strong and too numerous to have been the effects of chance . And yet the period at which ...
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The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or fome other accident , has become little better than the " fhadow of a fhade . " 5 The late Sir Joshua Reynolds indeed once fuggefted ...
The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or fome other accident , has become little better than the " fhadow of a fhade . " 5 The late Sir Joshua Reynolds indeed once fuggefted ...
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... is likewife a circumftance by no means honourable to our author , however fecure refpecting ourselves . ... we may aver that every cafual combination of fyllables may be tortured into mean-ing , and every fpecies of corruption ...
... is likewife a circumftance by no means honourable to our author , however fecure refpecting ourselves . ... we may aver that every cafual combination of fyllables may be tortured into mean-ing , and every fpecies of corruption ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, William Shakespeare Volume 1 of The plays of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare Volume 1 of The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, William Shakespeare |
| Authors | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributors | George Steevens, Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Apr 2009 |
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