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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... fuch high eftimation as Rowe , Pope , Warburton , Johnson , Farmer , and Steevens , with others of inferior name , the rank of Shak- speare in the poetical world is not a point at this time fubject to controverfy . His pre - eminence is ...
... fuch high eftimation as Rowe , Pope , Warburton , Johnson , Farmer , and Steevens , with others of inferior name , the rank of Shak- speare in the poetical world is not a point at this time fubject to controverfy . His pre - eminence is ...
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... fuch marks of a placid and amiable difpofition in this resemblance of our poet , as his admirers would have wifhed to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , 5 but on wood . Little more of it • Of fome ...
... fuch marks of a placid and amiable difpofition in this resemblance of our poet , as his admirers would have wifhed to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , 5 but on wood . Little more of it • Of fome ...
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... fuch a Portrait had exifted in Eaftcheap during the life of the in- duftrious Vertue , he would moft certainly have procured it , inftead of having fubmitted to take his firft engraving of our author from a juvenile likeness of James I ...
... fuch a Portrait had exifted in Eaftcheap during the life of the in- duftrious Vertue , he would moft certainly have procured it , inftead of having fubmitted to take his firft engraving of our author from a juvenile likeness of James I ...
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... fuch fcrupulous fidelity the publick ( which has long been amused by inadequate or ideal likeneffes of Shakspeare ) has an undoubted claim ; and fhould any fine ladies and gentlemen of the prefent age be difgufted at the ftiff garb of ...
... fuch fcrupulous fidelity the publick ( which has long been amused by inadequate or ideal likeneffes of Shakspeare ) has an undoubted claim ; and fhould any fine ladies and gentlemen of the prefent age be difgufted at the ftiff garb of ...
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... fuch direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no veftige of the Poet's features was difcernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone thofe features can be afcertained ? No man will ...
... fuch direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no veftige of the Poet's features was difcernible in the Picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone thofe features can be afcertained ? No man will ...
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