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" I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. "
Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays ... - Page 263
by Thomas Davies - 1783
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The History of King Lear: As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Colman, Nahum Tate - Aging parents - 1768 - 98 pages
..." in the prefent * A 'venturer, N°. 122. te cafe, fays Dr. Johnfon, the publick has " decided, and Cordelia, from the time of *' Tate, has always retired with' victory and " felicity." To reconcile the cataftrophe of Tate to the ftory of Shakefpeare, was the firft grand object which...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes: Troilus and Cressida ...

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 514 pages
...equal, the audience will not always rife better pleafed from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the public has decided. Cordelia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with viftory and felicity. And, if my fenfations could add any thing to the general fuftrage, I might relate,...
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The Dramatick Works of George Colman ...: Philaster. King Lear. Epicoene; or ...

George Colman - 1777 - 340 pages
...of Addlfon : but " in the prefent cafe, fays " Dr. Johnfon, the publick has decided, and Cor" delia, from the time of Tate, has always retired *' with victory and felicity." To reconcile the cataftrophe of Tate to the ftory of Shakefpeare, was the firft grand object which...
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Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several ...

Thomas Davies - Drama - 1783 - 442 pages
...events of human life; but fince, fays this writer, all reafonable beings naturally love juftice, \ cannot eafily be perfuaded, that the obfervation of...felicity. He farther fays, that, many years ago, he was fo fhocked by Cordelia's death, that he knows not whether he ever endured to read again the laft fcenes...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1785 - 632 pages
...audience will not always rife better pleated from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prefcnt cafe the public has decided*. Cordelia, from the time...Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my fenfutions couki add any thing to the general fuf, i * Dr. Johnfon fiiould rather have faid...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 722 pages
...always rife tetter pleafed from the final triumph of perfccuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the publick has decided*. Cordelia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with viftory and felicity. And, if my fenfations could add any thing to the general furTrage, I might relate,...
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The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1798 - 446 pages
...pleafed from the final triumph of perfccuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the public has decided. CordeKa, from the time of Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my fenfations could add any thing to the general fuffrage, I might relate, I was manyyears...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue. In the present case the public has decided. Cordelia, from the time of...Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my sensations could add any thing to the general suffrage, I might relate, I was many years...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In In the prefent cafe the publick has decided. Cor-' delia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my fenfations could add any thing to the general fuffrage, I might relate, I was many years...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue. In the present case the public has decided. Cordelia, from the time of...Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my sensations could add any thing to the general suffrage, I might relate, I was many years...
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