Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... give him no better education than his own employ- ment . He had bred him , it is true , for some time at a free - school , where , it is probable , he acquired what Latin he was master of ; but the narrowness of his circumstances , and ...
... give him no better education than his own employ- ment . He had bred him , it is true , for some time at a free - school , where , it is probable , he acquired what Latin he was master of ; but the narrowness of his circumstances , and ...
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... give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare , that in writing ( whatsoever he penned ) he never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which ...
... give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare , that in writing ( whatsoever he penned ) he never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which ...
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... gives his imagina- tion an entire loose , and raises his fancy to a flight above mankind , and the limits of the visible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempest , A Midsummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and Hamlet . Of these , The ...
... gives his imagina- tion an entire loose , and raises his fancy to a flight above mankind , and the limits of the visible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempest , A Midsummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and Hamlet . Of these , The ...
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... give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shake- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds him still de- scribed with simplicity , passive sanctity , want of courage , weakness of ...
... give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shake- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds him still de- scribed with simplicity , passive sanctity , want of courage , weakness of ...
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... gives to one age or nation , without scruple , the customs , institutions , and opinions of another , at the expense not only of likelihood , but of possibility . These faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgement , to ...
... gives to one age or nation , without scruple , the customs , institutions , and opinions of another , at the expense not only of likelihood , but of possibility . These faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgement , to ...
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