The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... cessors the same gratification he has experienced in his humble endeavours to illustrate the greatest poet the world ever knew . Staple Inn , May 2 , 1803 . ISAAC REED . ADVERTISEMENT . " WHEN I said I would die a xvi ADVERTISEMENT . VOL.
... cessors the same gratification he has experienced in his humble endeavours to illustrate the greatest poet the world ever knew . Staple Inn , May 2 , 1803 . ISAAC REED . ADVERTISEMENT . " WHEN I said I would die a xvi ADVERTISEMENT . VOL.
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... poet , as his admirers would have wished to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , " but on wood . Little more of it * Of some volunteer infidelities , however , Droeshout may be convicted . It is ...
... poet , as his admirers would have wished to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , " but on wood . Little more of it * Of some volunteer infidelities , however , Droeshout may be convicted . It is ...
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... Faithorne , that it appears to have sunk that celebrated engraver beneath many a common artist in the same line . with equal justice will withhold from him the poet's bays 26 ADVERTISEMENT . Advertisement by Mr Steevens to edition of 1793.
... Faithorne , that it appears to have sunk that celebrated engraver beneath many a common artist in the same line . with equal justice will withhold from him the poet's bays 26 ADVERTISEMENT . Advertisement by Mr Steevens to edition of 1793.
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... poet's annotators . It may be proper , indeed , to observe , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have exclud- ed themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who ...
... poet's annotators . It may be proper , indeed , to observe , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have exclud- ed themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who ...
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... poet , therefore , whose dialogue has often , during long and uninterrupted series of lines , no other peculiarities than were common to the works of his most celebrated contemporaries , and whose general ease and sweetness of ...
... poet , therefore , whose dialogue has often , during long and uninterrupted series of lines , no other peculiarities than were common to the works of his most celebrated contemporaries , and whose general ease and sweetness of ...
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