The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... ancient copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's ...
... ancient copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's ...
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... ancient head resembling the portrait of Shakspeare as engraved by Martin Droeshout in 1623 . Having frequently been misled by similar reports founded on inaccuracy of observation or uncertainty of recollection , Mr. Steevens was ...
... ancient head resembling the portrait of Shakspeare as engraved by Martin Droeshout in 1623 . Having frequently been misled by similar reports founded on inaccuracy of observation or uncertainty of recollection , Mr. Steevens was ...
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... ancient picture , might have been a theatrical one ; as in the course of observation such another habit has not occurred . Marshall , when he engraved from the same portrait , materially altered its paraphernalia , and , perhaps ...
... ancient picture , might have been a theatrical one ; as in the course of observation such another habit has not occurred . Marshall , when he engraved from the same portrait , materially altered its paraphernalia , and , perhaps ...
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... ancient handlers of the burin were often faithless to the character of their originals ; and it is conceived that some other performances by Droeshout will furnish no exception to this remark . Such defective imitations , however , even ...
... ancient handlers of the burin were often faithless to the character of their originals ; and it is conceived that some other performances by Droeshout will furnish no exception to this remark . Such defective imitations , however , even ...
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... ancient scandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted with the writings of this absurd gossip , will scarcely pay more attention to him on the present occasion , than when he gravely assures us ...
... ancient scandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted with the writings of this absurd gossip , will scarcely pay more attention to him on the present occasion , than when he gravely assures us ...
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