The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... play at Drury lane , the same spurious nonsense was heard from the lips of Mrs. Siddons , lips , whose matchlesss ... plays as are founded on Roman or British history , should be attended by complete transcripts from their originals ...
... play at Drury lane , the same spurious nonsense was heard from the lips of Mrs. Siddons , lips , whose matchlesss ... plays as are founded on Roman or British history , should be attended by complete transcripts from their originals ...
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... Plays of Shakspeare must not is- sue into the world without particular and ample acknowledge- ments of the benefit it has derived from the labours of the last editor , whose attention , diligence , and spirit of enquiry , have very far ...
... Plays of Shakspeare must not is- sue into the world without particular and ample acknowledge- ments of the benefit it has derived from the labours of the last editor , whose attention , diligence , and spirit of enquiry , have very far ...
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... plays , but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play ; and though I have enquired , I could never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own ...
... plays , but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play ; and though I have enquired , I could never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own ...
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... plays acted before her , and with- out doubt gave him many gracious marks of her favour : it is that maiden princess plainly , whom he intends by 66 a fair vestal , throned by the west . " A Midsummer Night's Dream . and that whole ...
... plays acted before her , and with- out doubt gave him many gracious marks of her favour : it is that maiden princess plainly , whom he intends by 66 a fair vestal , throned by the west . " A Midsummer Night's Dream . and that whole ...
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... plays were enlarged by their author . Allowing this to be true , which is by no means certain , if he had written twenty plays , each consisting of one thousand lines , and afterwards added to each of them a thousand more , would it ...
... plays were enlarged by their author . Allowing this to be true , which is by no means certain , if he had written twenty plays , each consisting of one thousand lines , and afterwards added to each of them a thousand more , would it ...
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