The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... called literature - whose mistakes from equivocal tranflations , and even typographical errors , cannot poffibly be accounted for otherwife , -that Locke , to whom not one of these circumftances is applicable , understood no Greek ? —I ...
... called literature - whose mistakes from equivocal tranflations , and even typographical errors , cannot poffibly be accounted for otherwife , -that Locke , to whom not one of these circumftances is applicable , understood no Greek ? —I ...
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... called in queftion . Dr. Dodd fuppofes it proved , that he was not fuch a novice in learning and anti- quity as fome people would pretend . And to clofe the whole , for I fufpect you to be tired of quotation , Mr. Whalley , the ...
... called in queftion . Dr. Dodd fuppofes it proved , that he was not fuch a novice in learning and anti- quity as fome people would pretend . And to clofe the whole , for I fufpect you to be tired of quotation , Mr. Whalley , the ...
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... called by his country- man , Sir David Lindsey , in his Complaint of our Souerane Lordis Papingo , " In our Inglifche rethorick the rofe . " And Dunbar hath a fimilar expreffion in his beautiful poem of The Goldin Terge . • Aristophanis ...
... called by his country- man , Sir David Lindsey , in his Complaint of our Souerane Lordis Papingo , " In our Inglifche rethorick the rofe . " And Dunbar hath a fimilar expreffion in his beautiful poem of The Goldin Terge . • Aristophanis ...
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... called Jack Drum's Entertainment , I conjecture that he had be- fore made his appearance on the stage . 1 Were this a proper place for fuch a difquifition , I could give you many cafes of this kind . We are fent for inftance to Cinthio ...
... called Jack Drum's Entertainment , I conjecture that he had be- fore made his appearance on the stage . 1 Were this a proper place for fuch a difquifition , I could give you many cafes of this kind . We are fent for inftance to Cinthio ...
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... called , Love's Labour Wonne , 3 is originally indeed the property of Boccace , * but it came immediately to Shakspeare from Pain- ter's Giletta of Narbon.5 Mr. Langbaine could not conceive , whence the story of Pericles could be taken ...
... called , Love's Labour Wonne , 3 is originally indeed the property of Boccace , * but it came immediately to Shakspeare from Pain- ter's Giletta of Narbon.5 Mr. Langbaine could not conceive , whence the story of Pericles could be taken ...
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