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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... never having read them . Whether his igno- rance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or no , may admit of a dispute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
... never having read them . Whether his igno- rance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or no , may admit of a dispute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
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... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the first play he ...
... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the first play he ...
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... never forgave it . He died in the 53d year of his age , and was buried on the north side of the chancel , in the great church at Stratford , where a monument is placed in the wall . On his grave - stone underneath is , Good friend , for ...
... never forgave it . He died in the 53d year of his age , and was buried on the north side of the chancel , in the great church at Stratford , where a monument is placed in the wall . On his grave - stone underneath is , Good friend , for ...
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... never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by ...
... never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by ...
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... never seen , and know nothing of . He writ likewise Venus and Adonis and Tarquin and Lucrece , in stanzas , which have been printed in a late collection of poems . As to the character given of him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal ...
... never seen , and know nothing of . He writ likewise Venus and Adonis and Tarquin and Lucrece , in stanzas , which have been printed in a late collection of poems . As to the character given of him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal ...
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