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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... learning , it may be necessary to say something more ; there is certainly a vast difference between learning and languages . How far he was ignorant of the latter , I cannot determine ; but it is plain he had much reading at least , if ...
... learning , it may be necessary to say something more ; there is certainly a vast difference between learning and languages . How far he was ignorant of the latter , I cannot determine ; but it is plain he had much reading at least , if ...
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... learning . Of how little use his learning was to him , an ingenious writer of our own time has shown with that vigour and animation for which he was distinguished . " Jonson , in the serious drama , is as much an imitator , as ...
... learning . Of how little use his learning was to him , an ingenious writer of our own time has shown with that vigour and animation for which he was distinguished . " Jonson , in the serious drama , is as much an imitator , as ...
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... learning was very little , -nature was all the art used upon him , as he himself , if alive , would confess . " And may we not say , he did confess it , when he apologized for his untutored lines to his noble patron the Earl of ...
... learning was very little , -nature was all the art used upon him , as he himself , if alive , would confess . " And may we not say , he did confess it , when he apologized for his untutored lines to his noble patron the Earl of ...
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