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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... fhall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents , when I add- -profunt fingula , juncla juvant . STEEVENS . PREFACE To THE SECOND EDITION , 1767 . THE HE Though our commentaries on the following Plays have ...
... fhall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents , when I add- -profunt fingula , juncla juvant . STEEVENS . PREFACE To THE SECOND EDITION , 1767 . THE HE Though our commentaries on the following Plays have ...
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... fhall excufe the moft grofs violations of hiftory , chronology , and geography ? Οὐ πείσεις , ἐδ ̓ ἦν πείσης , is the motto of every pole- mick like his brethren at the amphitheatre , he , holds it a merit to die hard ; and will not fay ...
... fhall excufe the moft grofs violations of hiftory , chronology , and geography ? Οὐ πείσεις , ἐδ ̓ ἦν πείσης , is the motto of every pole- mick like his brethren at the amphitheatre , he , holds it a merit to die hard ; and will not fay ...
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... fhall therefore have no occafion to trouble myself any further ; and may venture to call my pamphlet , in the words of a pleasant declaimer against sermons on the thirtieth of January , " an answer to every thing that shall hereafter be ...
... fhall therefore have no occafion to trouble myself any further ; and may venture to call my pamphlet , in the words of a pleasant declaimer against sermons on the thirtieth of January , " an answer to every thing that shall hereafter be ...
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... fhall stand in no need of fuch evidence . One of the first and most vehement affertors of the learning of Shakspeare , was the editor of his poems , the well - known Mr. Gildon ; and his steps • Hence perhaps the ill - ftarr'd rage ...
... fhall stand in no need of fuch evidence . One of the first and most vehement affertors of the learning of Shakspeare , was the editor of his poems , the well - known Mr. Gildon ; and his steps • Hence perhaps the ill - ftarr'd rage ...
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... 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 now in poffeffion of the Marks of Imita- tion . 66 " " Shakspeare , however , hath ...
... 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 now in poffeffion of the Marks of Imita- tion . 66 " " Shakspeare , however , hath ...
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