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1342 t 8 The age of the perfon reprefented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his resemblance was most likely to have been ...
1342 t 8 The age of the perfon reprefented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his resemblance was most likely to have been ...
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5 The late Sir Joshua Reynolds indeed once fuggefted , that whatever perfon it was defigned for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been ...
5 The late Sir Joshua Reynolds indeed once fuggefted , that whatever perfon it was defigned for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been ...
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Among the heads of illuftrious perfons engraved by Houbraken , are several imaginary ones , befide Ben Jonfon's and ... almost a century after the death of the perfon supposed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund says in King Lear ) ...
Among the heads of illuftrious perfons engraved by Houbraken , are several imaginary ones , befide Ben Jonfon's and ... almost a century after the death of the perfon supposed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund says in King Lear ) ...
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The fame advantage may be gained by opportunities of appropriating to ourselves what was originally faid by another perfon , and in another place . Though our adoptions have been flightly mentioned already , our fourth impreffion of the ...
The fame advantage may be gained by opportunities of appropriating to ourselves what was originally faid by another perfon , and in another place . Though our adoptions have been flightly mentioned already , our fourth impreffion of the ...
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How trifling foever this curiofity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an account of any remarkable perfon , till we have heard him defcribed even to the very clothes he wears .
How trifling foever this curiofity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an account of any remarkable perfon , till we have heard him defcribed even to the very clothes he wears .
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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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