The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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Page 199
... story - book of that time , intitl'd - Westward for Smelts : it is the second tale in the book : the scene , and the actors of it are different from Boccace , as Shakspeare's are from both ; but the main of the story is the same in all ...
... story - book of that time , intitl'd - Westward for Smelts : it is the second tale in the book : the scene , and the actors of it are different from Boccace , as Shakspeare's are from both ; but the main of the story is the same in all ...
Page 200
... story of both parts of Henry IV , as well as of Henry V , -is a very medley of nonsense and ribaldry ; and , it is my firm belief , was prior to Shakspeare's Henries , and the identical " displeasing play " mention'd in the epilogue to ...
... story of both parts of Henry IV , as well as of Henry V , -is a very medley of nonsense and ribaldry ; and , it is my firm belief , was prior to Shakspeare's Henries , and the identical " displeasing play " mention'd in the epilogue to ...
Page 319
... story still more ridiculous , Shakspeare , I suppose , translated phorminx by bagpipes . " Here we seem fairly caught ; -for Scaliger's work was never , as the term goes , done into English . But luckily in an old trans- lation from the ...
... story still more ridiculous , Shakspeare , I suppose , translated phorminx by bagpipes . " Here we seem fairly caught ; -for Scaliger's work was never , as the term goes , done into English . But luckily in an old trans- lation from the ...
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