The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience . It may be proper indeed to observe , that the errors we have discovered in our last edition are here corrected ...
... former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience . It may be proper indeed to observe , that the errors we have discovered in our last edition are here corrected ...
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... former owner of the picture , is uncertain . It is clear , however , that this is the identical head from which not only the engraving by Droeshout in 1623 , but that of Marshall in 1640 was made ; and though the hazards our author's ...
... former owner of the picture , is uncertain . It is clear , however , that this is the identical head from which not only the engraving by Droeshout in 1623 , but that of Marshall in 1640 was made ; and though the hazards our author's ...
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... former age were assembled , and their portraits reposited . To such suppositions it may be replied , that Mr. Slo- man , who quitted this celebrated publick house in 1767 , ( when all its furniture , which had devolved to him from his ...
... former age were assembled , and their portraits reposited . To such suppositions it may be replied , that Mr. Slo- man , who quitted this celebrated publick house in 1767 , ( when all its furniture , which had devolved to him from his ...
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... former usage , no head of Shakspeare is prefixed to the present edition of his plays . The undisguised fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or some other ...
... former usage , no head of Shakspeare is prefixed to the present edition of his plays . The undisguised fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pretends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or some other ...
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... former of these tales has no better foun- dation than the vanity of our degener Neoptolemus , * and the lat- Nor does the same piece of ancient scandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted ...
... former of these tales has no better foun- dation than the vanity of our degener Neoptolemus , * and the lat- Nor does the same piece of ancient scandal derive much weight from Aubrey's adoption of it . The reader who is ac- quainted ...
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