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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... give him the greatest com- mendation ; " yet an attack upon an article of faith hath been usually received with more temper and complacence , than the unfortunate opinion which I am about to defend . But let us previoufly lament with ...
... give him the greatest com- mendation ; " yet an attack upon an article of faith hath been usually received with more temper and complacence , than the unfortunate opinion which I am about to defend . But let us previoufly lament with ...
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... give you quo- tations from the elder English writers ( for to own the truth , I was once idle enough to collect fuch , ) which fhall carry with them at leaft an equal degree of fimilarity . But there can be no occafion of wafting any ...
... give you quo- tations from the elder English writers ( for to own the truth , I was once idle enough to collect fuch , ) which fhall carry with them at leaft an equal degree of fimilarity . But there can be no occafion of wafting any ...
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... gives , " To every fev'ral man , seventy - five drachmas.- " Moreover he hath left you all his walks , " His private arbours , and new - planted orchards , " On this fide Tiber- . " " Our author certainly wrote , " fays Mr. Theobald ...
... gives , " To every fev'ral man , seventy - five drachmas.- " Moreover he hath left you all his walks , " His private arbours , and new - planted orchards , " On this fide Tiber- . " " Our author certainly wrote , " fays Mr. Theobald ...
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... give you the old translation , which fhall effectually confute Mr. Pope : for our author hath done little more , than thrown the very words of North into blank verse . " If we helde our peace ( my fonne ) and deter- mined not to speake ...
... give you the old translation , which fhall effectually confute Mr. Pope : for our author hath done little more , than thrown the very words of North into blank verse . " If we helde our peace ( my fonne ) and deter- mined not to speake ...
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... give you many cafes of this kind . We are fent for inftance to Cinthio for the plot of Measure for Meafure , and Shakspeare's judgment hath been attacked for fome deviations from him in the con- duct of it when probably all he knew of ...
... give you many cafes of this kind . We are fent for inftance to Cinthio for the plot of Measure for Meafure , and Shakspeare's judgment hath been attacked for fome deviations from him in the con- duct of it when probably all he knew of ...
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