The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... fuch cenfures , fince he only turned the system that was then universally admitted , to his advantage , and was far from overburdening the credulity of his audience . The reality of witchcraft or enchantment , which , though not ...
... fuch cenfures , fince he only turned the system that was then universally admitted , to his advantage , and was far from overburdening the credulity of his audience . The reality of witchcraft or enchantment , which , though not ...
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... fuch perfon being convicted shall fuffer death . " This law was repealed in our own time . Thus , in the time of Shakspeare , was the doctrine of witch- craft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it be- came not only ...
... fuch perfon being convicted shall fuffer death . " This law was repealed in our own time . Thus , in the time of Shakspeare , was the doctrine of witch- craft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it be- came not only ...
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... fuch of our author's plays as had been pub- lished in quarto , we have often detected more important errors in the folio 1623 , which , unluckily , supplies the most ancient copy of Macbeth , STEEVENS . 5 Graymalkin ! ] From a little ...
... fuch of our author's plays as had been pub- lished in quarto , we have often detected more important errors in the folio 1623 , which , unluckily , supplies the most ancient copy of Macbeth , STEEVENS . 5 Graymalkin ! ] From a little ...
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... fuch terrible crofs blows given and received but by giants and miscreants in Amadis de Gaule . Befides , it must be a strange aukward stroke that could unrip him upwards from the navel to the chaps . But Shakspeare certainly wrote ...
... fuch terrible crofs blows given and received but by giants and miscreants in Amadis de Gaule . Befides , it must be a strange aukward stroke that could unrip him upwards from the navel to the chaps . But Shakspeare certainly wrote ...
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... fuch emphafis and dignity , that in this play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . JOHNSON . Crack is used on a fimilar occafion by Barnaby Googe , in his Cupido Conquered , 1563 : " The canon's cracke begins ...
... fuch emphafis and dignity , that in this play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . JOHNSON . Crack is used on a fimilar occafion by Barnaby Googe , in his Cupido Conquered , 1563 : " The canon's cracke begins ...
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