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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... alfo be observed , that if Droeshout's plate had been followed by the painter , the line in front of the ruff would have been incurvated , and not have appeared straight , as it is in the smaller print by Marshall from the same picture ...
... alfo be observed , that if Droeshout's plate had been followed by the painter , the line in front of the ruff would have been incurvated , and not have appeared straight , as it is in the smaller print by Marshall from the same picture ...
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... alfo be observed , that our author's earliest compo- fitions , his Sonnets , & c . are wholly free from me- trical imperfections . The truth is , that from one extreme we have reached another . Our incautious predecessors , Rowe , Pope ...
... alfo be observed , that our author's earliest compo- fitions , his Sonnets , & c . are wholly free from me- trical imperfections . The truth is , that from one extreme we have reached another . Our incautious predecessors , Rowe , Pope ...
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... alfo Mr. Steevens's note on those verses . Before Shakspeare's death Ben's envious disposition is mentioned by one of his own friends ; it must therefore have been even then notorious , though the writer denies the truth of the charge ...
... alfo Mr. Steevens's note on those verses . Before Shakspeare's death Ben's envious disposition is mentioned by one of his own friends ; it must therefore have been even then notorious , though the writer denies the truth of the charge ...
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... alfo to engage in a peculiar course of reading , neither pleasing nor profitable for any other pur- pofe . But I will venture to affert , that his merit is more confpicuous in the comments than the text ; in the regulation of which he ...
... alfo to engage in a peculiar course of reading , neither pleasing nor profitable for any other pur- pofe . But I will venture to affert , that his merit is more confpicuous in the comments than the text ; in the regulation of which he ...
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... alfo , Edgar , in King Lear : " The Safer fenfe will ne'er accommodate " His master thus . " 2 The price of books at different periods may serve in some measure to afcertain the taste and particular study of the age . At the fale of Dr ...
... alfo , Edgar , in King Lear : " The Safer fenfe will ne'er accommodate " His master thus . " 2 The price of books at different periods may serve in some measure to afcertain the taste and particular study of the age . At the fale of Dr ...
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