The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volumes 12-13J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal . Yet these , contemptible and few as they are , we may suppose to have been the most popular productions of the ...
... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal . Yet these , contemptible and few as they are , we may suppose to have been the most popular productions of the ...
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... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the au- thor in one passage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metropolitical , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should the ...
... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the au- thor in one passage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metropolitical , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should the ...
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... writer , whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs , which ...
... writer , whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs , which ...
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... writer now living , who has inves- tigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sagacity . " 6 " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very ingenious , and quite new . Religious plays , he supposes , came ...
... writer now living , who has inves- tigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sagacity . " 6 " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very ingenious , and quite new . Religious plays , he supposes , came ...
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... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all in ...
... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all in ...
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