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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... Pope , Warburton , Johnson , Farmer , and Steevens , with others of inferior name , the rank of Shak- speare in the poetical world is not a point at this time subject to controversy . His pre - eminence is admitted ; his superiority ...
... Pope , Warburton , Johnson , Farmer , and Steevens , with others of inferior name , the rank of Shak- speare in the poetical world is not a point at this time subject to controversy . His pre - eminence is admitted ; his superiority ...
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... Pope's edition of Shakspeare , in fix volumes quarto . But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumftance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he after- wards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a ...
... Pope's edition of Shakspeare , in fix volumes quarto . But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumftance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he after- wards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a ...
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... POPE . Richard II . and III . were both printed in 1597. - On the order of time in which Shakspeare's plays were written , see the Essay in the next volume . MALONE . 5 - for aught I know , the performances of his youth- were the best ...
... POPE . Richard II . and III . were both printed in 1597. - On the order of time in which Shakspeare's plays were written , see the Essay in the next volume . MALONE . 5 - for aught I know , the performances of his youth- were the best ...
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... Pope's edition of our author's plays in quarto ; said to be engraved from an original picture in the poffeffion of the Earl of Oxford ; and another , a mezzotinto , by Earlom , prefixed to an edition of King Lear , in 1770 ; faid to be ...
... Pope's edition of our author's plays in quarto ; said to be engraved from an original picture in the poffeffion of the Earl of Oxford ; and another , a mezzotinto , by Earlom , prefixed to an edition of King Lear , in 1770 ; faid to be ...
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... Pope , if even that would prove the point intended to be established . Mr. Pope was evidently deceived by the quarto copies . From the play of Henry V. being more perfect in the folio edition than in the quarto , nothing follows but ...
... Pope , if even that would prove the point intended to be established . Mr. Pope was evidently deceived by the quarto copies . From the play of Henry V. being more perfect in the folio edition than in the quarto , nothing follows but ...
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