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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... 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 future time in this department : the world is ...
... 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 future time in this department : the world is ...
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... writers . Haver , in the fenfe of pofsefsor , is every where met with : though unfortunately the πρὸς τὸν Ἔχοντα of Sophocles produced as an authority for it , is fufpected by Kufter , as good a critick in these matters , to have ...
... writers . Haver , in the fenfe of pofsefsor , is every where met with : though unfortunately the πρὸς τὸν Ἔχοντα of Sophocles produced as an authority for it , is fufpected by Kufter , as good a critick in these matters , to have ...
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... writer of the time , or ftill more easily in the vulgar tranflation of the Bible , by confulting the Concordance of Alexander Cruden . But whence have we the plot of Timon , except from the Greek of Lucian ? -The editors and criticks ...
... writer of the time , or ftill more easily in the vulgar tranflation of the Bible , by confulting the Concordance of Alexander Cruden . But whence have we the plot of Timon , except from the Greek of Lucian ? -The editors and criticks ...
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... writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more converfant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than his own , " cannot but wonder , that a poet , whofe claffical images are composed of the finest parts , and breathe ...
... writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more converfant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than his own , " cannot but wonder , that a poet , whofe claffical images are composed of the finest parts , and breathe ...
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... writer of the Life of Sir Philip , prefixed to the mo- dern editions ; that the Arcadia was not published before 1613 , and confequently too late for this imi- tation but I have a copy in my own poffeffion , printed for W. Ponfonbie ...
... writer of the Life of Sir Philip , prefixed to the mo- dern editions ; that the Arcadia was not published before 1613 , and confequently too late for this imi- tation but I have a copy in my own poffeffion , printed for W. Ponfonbie ...
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