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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... lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling soever this curiosity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly satisfied with an account of any ...
... lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling soever this curiosity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly satisfied with an account of any ...
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... lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon that . However , there are some of his pieces , where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
... lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon that . However , there are some of his pieces , where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
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... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delusion ...
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delusion ...
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... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crowded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sentiment or argu ...
... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crowded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sentiment or argu ...
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... lives ; While still more wretch , more wicked he doth prove : Till now at length that Jove an office gives , ( At Juno's suite who much did Argus love ) In this our world a hangman for to be Of all those fooles that will have all they ...
... lives ; While still more wretch , more wicked he doth prove : Till now at length that Jove an office gives , ( At Juno's suite who much did Argus love ) In this our world a hangman for to be Of all those fooles that will have all they ...
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