“The” Plays Of William Shakespeare, Volume 1T. Bensley, 1778 |
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... ftill valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true ftate of things , knows not how to judge of that which is propofed as ...
... ftill valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true ftate of things , knows not how to judge of that which is propofed as ...
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... ftill find that on our stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies ...
... ftill find that on our stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies ...
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... ftill multiplied errors ; they were perhaps fometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of shortening the fpeeches ; and were at last printed without correction of the prefs . In this ftate they remained , not as Dr. Warburton ...
... ftill multiplied errors ; they were perhaps fometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of shortening the fpeeches ; and were at last printed without correction of the prefs . In this ftate they remained , not as Dr. Warburton ...
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... ftill the fureft chapmen : and thefe by meanes that their heades are well ftockt , deale upon this comical freight by the groffe ; when your groundling , and gallery commoner buyes his fport by the penny , and , like a hagler , is glad ...
... ftill the fureft chapmen : and thefe by meanes that their heades are well ftockt , deale upon this comical freight by the groffe ; when your groundling , and gallery commoner buyes his fport by the penny , and , like a hagler , is glad ...
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... ftill unpub- lished . See the Brit . Muf . MSS . Harl . 2251 . It is much to be lamented that Andrew Maunfell , a bookfeller in Lothbury , who published two parts of a catalogue of English printed books , fol . 1595 , did not proceed to ...
... ftill unpub- lished . See the Brit . Muf . MSS . Harl . 2251 . It is much to be lamented that Andrew Maunfell , a bookfeller in Lothbury , who published two parts of a catalogue of English printed books , fol . 1595 , did not proceed to ...
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