The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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Page 85
... knowledge of the original . He was to copy , not what he knew himself , but what was known to his audience . It is most likely that he had learned Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with construction , but that he never advanced ...
... knowledge of the original . He was to copy , not what he knew himself , but what was known to his audience . It is most likely that he had learned Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with construction , but that he never advanced ...
Page 88
... knowledge of many modes of life , and many casts of native dispositions ; to vary them with great multiplicity ; to mark them by nice distinctions ; and to show them in full view by proper combinations . In this part of his performances ...
... knowledge of many modes of life , and many casts of native dispositions ; to vary them with great multiplicity ; to mark them by nice distinctions ; and to show them in full view by proper combinations . In this part of his performances ...
Page 330
... knowledge of the Latin tongue : " and he proceeds to settle the sense of it from the late Roman writers and their glossers . But Shak- speare's knowledge was from Holinshed , whom he follows verbatim : " This cardinal was of a great ...
... knowledge of the Latin tongue : " and he proceeds to settle the sense of it from the late Roman writers and their glossers . But Shak- speare's knowledge was from Holinshed , whom he follows verbatim : " This cardinal was of a great ...
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