The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... matter prefatory to W. Richardson's proposals , the plate by Vertue from Mr. Keck's ( now the Chandos ) picture , is said to have succeeded the engraving before Mr. Pope's edition of Shakspeare , in six volumes quarto . * But the ...
... matter prefatory to W. Richardson's proposals , the plate by Vertue from Mr. Keck's ( now the Chandos ) picture , is said to have succeeded the engraving before Mr. Pope's edition of Shakspeare , in six volumes quarto . * But the ...
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... matter , that our readers will at length be frighted away from Shakspeare , as the soldiers of Cato de- serted their comrade when he became bloated with poison- crescens fugêre cadaver . It is our opinion , in short , that every ...
... matter , that our readers will at length be frighted away from Shakspeare , as the soldiers of Cato de- serted their comrade when he became bloated with poison- crescens fugêre cadaver . It is our opinion , in short , that every ...
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... matters we commit our- selves to the publick ear ; on the second we must awhile solicit the reader's attention . The following conjectural account of the publication of this second folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) per ...
... matters we commit our- selves to the publick ear ; on the second we must awhile solicit the reader's attention . The following conjectural account of the publication of this second folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) per ...
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... he gained over all the ancients , by the judgment of the ablest criticks of that time . " The matter of fact , if my memory fail me not , was this . Mr. The latter part of his life was spent , as OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . 47.
... he gained over all the ancients , by the judgment of the ablest criticks of that time . " The matter of fact , if my memory fail me not , was this . Mr. The latter part of his life was spent , as OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . 47.
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... matter , and an examination of it some years ago furnished me with such evidence as renders the story recorded in Braithwaite's Remains very doubtful : and still more strongly proves that , who- ever was the author of this epitaph , it ...
... matter , and an examination of it some years ago furnished me with such evidence as renders the story recorded in Braithwaite's Remains very doubtful : and still more strongly proves that , who- ever was the author of this epitaph , it ...
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