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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... original Shakspeare to the tranflator of Du Bartas . But Jonfon is by no means our only authority . Drayton , the countryman and acquaintance of Shakspeare , determines his excellence to the na- turall braine4 only . Digges , a wit of ...
... original Shakspeare to the tranflator of Du Bartas . But Jonfon is by no means our only authority . Drayton , the countryman and acquaintance of Shakspeare , determines his excellence to the na- turall braine4 only . Digges , a wit of ...
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... original.9 I cannot , however , omit a paffage from Mr. Pope : " The Speeches copied from Plutarch in Coriolanus may , I think , be as well made an inftance of the learning of Shakspeare , as thofe copy'd from Cicero in Catiline , of ...
... original.9 I cannot , however , omit a paffage from Mr. Pope : " The Speeches copied from Plutarch in Coriolanus may , I think , be as well made an inftance of the learning of Shakspeare , as thofe copy'd from Cicero in Catiline , of ...
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... original . But he is miftaken : this too was the work of Boccace , and printed at Ferrara in folio , con il com- mento di Andrea Baffi , 1475. I have feen a copy of it , and a tranflation into modern Greek , in the noble library of the ...
... original . But he is miftaken : this too was the work of Boccace , and printed at Ferrara in folio , con il com- mento di Andrea Baffi , 1475. I have feen a copy of it , and a tranflation into modern Greek , in the noble library of the ...
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... original play of William Shakspeare in the King's Patent prefixed to Mr. Theobald's edition , 1728 , and confequently there could be no fraud in the matter . Whilft , on the contrary , the Irish laureat , Mr. Victor , remarks , ( and ...
... original play of William Shakspeare in the King's Patent prefixed to Mr. Theobald's edition , 1728 , and confequently there could be no fraud in the matter . Whilft , on the contrary , the Irish laureat , Mr. Victor , remarks , ( and ...
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... original ; and obferve in confequence , that " if Chaucer's coin were of greater weight for deeper learning , Lyd- gate's were of a more refined ftandard for purer language : fo that one might mistake him for a modern writer ! " Let me ...
... original ; and obferve in confequence , that " if Chaucer's coin were of greater weight for deeper learning , Lyd- gate's were of a more refined ftandard for purer language : fo that one might mistake him for a modern writer ! " Let me ...
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