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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... It is not improbable that Ben Jonfon furnished the Dedication and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Commendatory Verfes prefixed to it . 1 1 " The figure , that thou here feeft put , MR . RICHARDSON'S PROPOSALS . 11.
... It is not improbable that Ben Jonfon furnished the Dedication and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Commendatory Verfes prefixed to it . 1 1 " The figure , that thou here feeft put , MR . RICHARDSON'S PROPOSALS . 11.
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... folio 1623 exhibited such a likeness of Shakspeare as fatisfied the eye of his contemporary , Ben Jonson , who , on an occafion like this , would hardly have ventured to affert what it was in the power of many of his readers to ...
... folio 1623 exhibited such a likeness of Shakspeare as fatisfied the eye of his contemporary , Ben Jonson , who , on an occafion like this , would hardly have ventured to affert what it was in the power of many of his readers to ...
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... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does fo " abominable an imitation of humanity " deferve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the Poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reverfed copy by Marshall from its predeceffor , with a ...
... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does fo " abominable an imitation of humanity " deferve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the Poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reverfed copy by Marshall from its predeceffor , with a ...
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... folio . In plainer terms , that the vitiations of a careless theatre were feconded by thofe of as igno- rant a prefs . The integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the innocence of females nurfed in a ...
... folio . In plainer terms , that the vitiations of a careless theatre were feconded by thofe of as igno- rant a prefs . The integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the innocence of females nurfed in a ...
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... folio ; that we have fometimes fol- lowed the fuggeftions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the deci- fions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwithstanding their choice of readings might have been ...
... folio ; that we have fometimes fol- lowed the fuggeftions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the deci- fions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwithstanding their choice of readings might have been ...
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