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Though he had so many difficulties to encounter , and so little assistance to surmount them , he has been able to obtain an ex .. act knowledge of many modes of life , and many casts of native dispositions ; to vary them with great ...
Though he had so many difficulties to encounter , and so little assistance to surmount them , he has been able to obtain an ex .. act knowledge of many modes of life , and many casts of native dispositions ; to vary them with great ...
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history , and even the seeming peculiarities of his language : to furnish out these materials , all the plays have been perus'd , within the tincture of any knowledge it had once been imbu'd with , can not be imagin'd : accordingly we ...
history , and even the seeming peculiarities of his language : to furnish out these materials , all the plays have been perus'd , within the tincture of any knowledge it had once been imbu'd with , can not be imagin'd : accordingly we ...
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... those beauties that are less obvious to common readers , and whose illustration depends on the rules of just criticism , and an exact knowledge of human life , should deservedly have a share in a general critique upon the author .
... those beauties that are less obvious to common readers , and whose illustration depends on the rules of just criticism , and an exact knowledge of human life , should deservedly have a share in a general critique upon the author .
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2008 |
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