The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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... publick is now in poffeffion of as accurate an account of the dates , & c . of Shakspeare's works as perhaps will ever be compiled . This was by far the moft irkfome part of my undertaking , though facilitated as much as poffible by the ...
... publick is now in poffeffion of as accurate an account of the dates , & c . of Shakspeare's works as perhaps will ever be compiled . This was by far the moft irkfome part of my undertaking , though facilitated as much as poffible by the ...
Page 56
... publick ; and the avidity with which all communications of this kind have been received , fufficiently proves that the time expended in the purfuit has not been wholly mifemployed . However , after the most diligent inquiries , very 3 ...
... publick ; and the avidity with which all communications of this kind have been received , fufficiently proves that the time expended in the purfuit has not been wholly mifemployed . However , after the most diligent inquiries , very 3 ...
Page 57
... publick : or that , if even Shak- fpeare himself had left us a chronological lift of his dramas , it would exhibit fuch a fcale . All that is meant is , that , as his knowledge increased , and as he became more converfant with the ftage ...
... publick : or that , if even Shak- fpeare himself had left us a chronological lift of his dramas , it would exhibit fuch a fcale . All that is meant is , that , as his knowledge increased , and as he became more converfant with the ftage ...
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... publick had not been fo long engaged by them , as by his early compofitions . 2. From the time that Shakspeare had the fuperintendance of a play- houfe , that is , from the year 1603,7 when he and feveral others obtained a licence from ...
... publick had not been fo long engaged by them , as by his early compofitions . 2. From the time that Shakspeare had the fuperintendance of a play- houfe , that is , from the year 1603,7 when he and feveral others obtained a licence from ...
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William Shakespeare. 66 alluded to his having withdrawn himfelf for fome time from the publick , and difcontinued writing from a difguft he had taken to the then ill tafle of the town and the mean condition of the flage . " But as Mr ...
William Shakespeare. 66 alluded to his having withdrawn himfelf for fome time from the publick , and difcontinued writing from a difguft he had taken to the then ill tafle of the town and the mean condition of the flage . " But as Mr ...
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