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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... best editor of Shak- speare . The edition which now folicits the notice of the publick is faithfully printed from the copy given by " Whose talents , varying as the diamond's ray , " Could fafcinate alike the grave or gay ! " How oft ...
... best editor of Shak- speare . The edition which now folicits the notice of the publick is faithfully printed from the copy given by " Whose talents , varying as the diamond's ray , " Could fafcinate alike the grave or gay ! " How oft ...
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... best part of his works , have nothing but their scarcity to recommend them . He engraved the head of Shakespeare , John Fox , the martyrologift , John Howson , Bishop of Durham , " & c . Strutt's Dictionary of Engravers , Vol . I. p ...
... best part of his works , have nothing but their scarcity to recommend them . He engraved the head of Shakespeare , John Fox , the martyrologift , John Howson , Bishop of Durham , " & c . Strutt's Dictionary of Engravers , Vol . I. p ...
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... - Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT .
... - Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT .
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... best engraving from it that could have been produced by the most skilful of our modern artists ; but it is idle to be at the charge of perpe- tuating illufions : and who shall offer to point out , among the numerous prints of Shakspeare ...
... best engraving from it that could have been produced by the most skilful of our modern artists ; but it is idle to be at the charge of perpe- tuating illufions : and who shall offer to point out , among the numerous prints of Shakspeare ...
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... best efforts , their own incapacity , and that of the original quarto and folio - mongers , have still left sufficient work for a race of commentators who are yet unborn . Nos , ( fays Tully , in the second Book of his Tusculan Quef ...
... best efforts , their own incapacity , and that of the original quarto and folio - mongers , have still left sufficient work for a race of commentators who are yet unborn . Nos , ( fays Tully , in the second Book of his Tusculan Quef ...
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