The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he wrote ; † it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of ...
... performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he wrote ; † it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of ...
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... performance , which Ben Jonson calls stale and mouldy , was probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called so ; but most certainly it ...
... performance , which Ben Jonson calls stale and mouldy , was probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called so ; but most certainly it ...
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... performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spen- ser , and Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not ... performance of a madman without a lucid interval . 1796 - the These lines were particularly admired ; and his vanity ...
... performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spen- ser , and Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not ... performance of a madman without a lucid interval . 1796 - the These lines were particularly admired ; and his vanity ...
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