The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... manner , permitted Mr. Richardson to bring the head , frame and all , away with him ; and several unquestionable judges have concurred in pronouncing that the plate of Droeshout con- veys not only a general likeness of its original ...
... manner , permitted Mr. Richardson to bring the head , frame and all , away with him ; and several unquestionable judges have concurred in pronouncing that the plate of Droeshout con- veys not only a general likeness of its original ...
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... manner that it was possible for a master of the English language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; * and in or- der to settle in the ...
... manner that it was possible for a master of the English language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; * and in or- der to settle in the ...
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... manners , and a misfortune to him , yet it after- wards happily proved the occasion of exerting one of the great- est geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry . He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows , fallen into ...
... manners , and a misfortune to him , yet it after- wards happily proved the occasion of exerting one of the great- est geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry . He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows , fallen into ...
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... manners , and a most agreeable companion ; so that * He was received into the company — at first in a very mean rank ; ] There is a stage tradition , that his first office in the theatre was that of Call - boy , or prompter's attendant ...
... manners , and a most agreeable companion ; so that * He was received into the company — at first in a very mean rank ; ] There is a stage tradition , that his first office in the theatre was that of Call - boy , or prompter's attendant ...
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... manner of writing , and want of judgment . The praise of seldom alter- ing or blotting out what he had writ , which was given him by the players , who were the first publishers of his works after his death , was what Jonson could not ...
... manner of writing , and want of judgment . The praise of seldom alter- ing or blotting out what he had writ , which was given him by the players , who were the first publishers of his works after his death , was what Jonson could not ...
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