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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... probably be made , and many additional proofs of the argument have neceffarily occurred in more than twenty years : some of which may be found in the late admirable editions of our POET , by Mr. Steevens and Mr. Reed . But , perhaps ...
... probably be made , and many additional proofs of the argument have neceffarily occurred in more than twenty years : some of which may be found in the late admirable editions of our POET , by Mr. Steevens and Mr. Reed . But , perhaps ...
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... probably have no great weight on either fide , yet it may not feem fair to fupprefs them : take them therefore as their authors occur to me , and we will afterward proceed to particulars . The teftimony of Ben . ftands foremost ; and ...
... probably have no great weight on either fide , yet it may not feem fair to fupprefs them : take them therefore as their authors occur to me , and we will afterward proceed to particulars . The teftimony of Ben . ftands foremost ; and ...
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... probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Ariofio is continually quoted for the fable of Much Ado about Nothing ; but I fuf- pect our poet to have been satisfied with the Geneura of ...
... probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Ariofio is continually quoted for the fable of Much Ado about Nothing ; but I fuf- pect our poet to have been satisfied with the Geneura of ...
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... probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed ...
... probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed ...
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... probably misled by his predeceffor , Speght , was determined , Procruftes - like , to force every line in The Canterbury Tales to the fame standard : but a precise num- ber of fyllables was not the object of our old poets . Lydgate ...
... probably misled by his predeceffor , Speght , was determined , Procruftes - like , to force every line in The Canterbury Tales to the fame standard : but a precise num- ber of fyllables was not the object of our old poets . Lydgate ...
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