 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...Shakspeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. " When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. " When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities, disentangle his intri» cacies, and recover the meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...Shakespeare with, those of writers who* lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...of words now lost in the darkness, of .antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an al' Jusion to some other book, the passage will be quot3... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...Shakspeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. " When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...SftaJtespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities,...meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity. •* When therefore any obscurity arises from an allusion to some other book, the passage will be quoted.... | |
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He hopes that, by comparing the works of Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities, disentangle his intricacies, and recover the meaning... 
