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 40
... seems , has made him seem to allude to the very laws , which these two legislators propounded above three hundred years after . If this inference be not something like an anachronism or prolepsis , I will look once more into my lexicons ...
... seems , has made him seem to allude to the very laws , which these two legislators propounded above three hundred years after . If this inference be not something like an anachronism or prolepsis , I will look once more into my lexicons ...
Page 71
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature ...
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature ...
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... seems to have belonged to the play - house , by having the parts divided by lines , and the actors ' names in the margin , ) where several of those very passages were added in a written hand , which since are to be found in the folio ...
... seems to have belonged to the play - house , by having the parts divided by lines , and the actors ' names in the margin , ) where several of those very passages were added in a written hand , which since are to be found in the folio ...
Contents
ROMEO AND JULIET | 12 |
AS YOU LIKE | 83 |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 121 |
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