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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... present offence was indeed avoided ; but I do not know whether the author may not have been somewhat to blame in his second choice , since it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was a knight of the garter , and a lieutenant ...
... present offence was indeed avoided ; but I do not know whether the author may not have been somewhat to blame in his second choice , since it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was a knight of the garter , and a lieutenant ...
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... present age has shown to French dancers and Italian singers . What particular habitude or friendships he contracted with private men , I have not been able to learn , more than that every one , who had a true taste of merit , and could ...
... present age has shown to French dancers and Italian singers . What particular habitude or friendships he contracted with private men , I have not been able to learn , more than that every one , who had a true taste of merit , and could ...
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... present age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a pleasing and a well - distinguished variety in those charac- ters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allowed by every body to be a master - piece ; the character is ...
... present age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a pleasing and a well - distinguished variety in those charac- ters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allowed by every body to be a master - piece ; the character is ...
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... the dictates of his own fancy . When one considers , that there is not one play before him of a re- putation good enough to entitle it to an appearance on the present stage , it cannot but be a matter OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 17.
... the dictates of his own fancy . When one considers , that there is not one play before him of a re- putation good enough to entitle it to an appearance on the present stage , it cannot but be a matter OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . 17.
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William Shakespeare. the present stage , it cannot but be a matter of great wonder that he should advance dramatic poetry so far as he did . The fable is what is generally placed the first , among those that are reckoned the constituent ...
William Shakespeare. the present stage , it cannot but be a matter of great wonder that he should advance dramatic poetry so far as he did . The fable is what is generally placed the first , among those that are reckoned the constituent ...
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