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Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed ...
Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed ...
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... transcribed at random , of a greater number of old copies than ever they can be supposed to have had in their possession ; when , at the same time , they never examined the few which we know they had , with any degree of accuracy .
... transcribed at random , of a greater number of old copies than ever they can be supposed to have had in their possession ; when , at the same time , they never examined the few which we know they had , with any degree of accuracy .
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And it was the custom of those days for the po . ets to take a price of the players for the pieces they from time to time furnished ; and thereupon it was supposed they had no farther right to print them without the consent of the ...
And it was the custom of those days for the po . ets to take a price of the players for the pieces they from time to time furnished ; and thereupon it was supposed they had no farther right to print them without the consent of the ...
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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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