The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... story , & c . ) with a part of that gentleman's collec- tion of paintings , to be fold at the European Mu- seum , and was exhibited there for about three months , during which time it was seen by Lord Leicester and Lord Orford , who ...
... story , & c . ) with a part of that gentleman's collec- tion of paintings , to be fold at the European Mu- seum , and was exhibited there for about three months , during which time it was seen by Lord Leicester and Lord Orford , who ...
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... story must be drawn ; for if the portrait in question arrived after a filent progress through obfcurity , at the shop of a broker who , being ignorant of its value , fold it for a few shil- lings , it must necessarily have been ...
... story must be drawn ; for if the portrait in question arrived after a filent progress through obfcurity , at the shop of a broker who , being ignorant of its value , fold it for a few shil- lings , it must necessarily have been ...
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... story of the great men of antiquity ! their families , the common accidents of their lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling foever this curi ofity may seem to be ...
... story of the great men of antiquity ! their families , the common accidents of their lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling foever this curi ofity may seem to be ...
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... story of Shak- speare's robbing Sir Thomas Lucy's park ; and their account of it agreed with Mr. Rowe's , with this addition , that the ballad written againft Sir Thomas Lucy by Shakspeare was stuck upon his park - gate , which ...
... story of Shak- speare's robbing Sir Thomas Lucy's park ; and their account of it agreed with Mr. Rowe's , with this addition , that the ballad written againft Sir Thomas Lucy by Shakspeare was stuck upon his park - gate , which ...
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... story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant , who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my Lord Southamp- ton at one time gave him a thousand pounds , to enable him to ...
... story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant , who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my Lord Southamp- ton at one time gave him a thousand pounds , to enable him to ...
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