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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... fame day . By temperance and exercise he continued healthy and active until the last two years of his life , and to the conclufion of it did not relax his attention to the illustration of Shakspeare , which was the first object of his ...
... fame day . By temperance and exercise he continued healthy and active until the last two years of his life , and to the conclufion of it did not relax his attention to the illustration of Shakspeare , which was the first object of his ...
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... fame picture . In antiquated English portraits , examples of rectilineal ruffs are familiar ; but where will be found fuch another as the German has placed under the chin of his meta- morphofed poet ? From its pointed corners , refem ...
... fame picture . In antiquated English portraits , examples of rectilineal ruffs are familiar ; but where will be found fuch another as the German has placed under the chin of his meta- morphofed poet ? From its pointed corners , refem ...
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... fame piece of ancient fcandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted with the writings of this abfurd goflip , will scarcely pay more attention to him on the present occafion , than when he ...
... fame piece of ancient fcandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted with the writings of this abfurd goflip , will scarcely pay more attention to him on the present occafion , than when he ...
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... fame purpose . Thus the late Mr. Jennens , of Gopfal in Leicester- fhire , for many years congratulated himself as owner of another genuine portrait of Shakspeare , and by Cornelius Janfen ; nor was difpofed to forgive the writer who ...
... fame purpose . Thus the late Mr. Jennens , of Gopfal in Leicester- fhire , for many years congratulated himself as owner of another genuine portrait of Shakspeare , and by Cornelius Janfen ; nor was difpofed to forgive the writer who ...
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... fame and multiply his readers ; unless ( like Curl the bookfeller , when the Jews fpoke Hebrew to him , ) they happen to have most faith in what they leaft understand . Refpecting our author , therefore , on fome occafions , we cannot ...
... fame and multiply his readers ; unless ( like Curl the bookfeller , when the Jews fpoke Hebrew to him , ) they happen to have most faith in what they leaft understand . Refpecting our author , therefore , on fome occafions , we cannot ...
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