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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... Editor will proceed to the confideration of the work now presented to the Publick . It contains the last improvements and corrections of Mr. Steevens , * by whom it was prepared for the press , and to whom the praise is due of. * Of one ...
... Editor will proceed to the confideration of the work now presented to the Publick . It contains the last improvements and corrections of Mr. Steevens , * by whom it was prepared for the press , and to whom the praise is due of. * Of one ...
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... 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 has ...
... 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 has ...
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... Editor , who has , with the aid of an able and vigilant assistant , and a careful printer , endeavoured to fulfil the trust reposed in him , as well as continued ill health and depressed spirits would permit . By a memorandum in the ...
... Editor , who has , with the aid of an able and vigilant assistant , and a careful printer , endeavoured to fulfil the trust reposed in him , as well as continued ill health and depressed spirits would permit . By a memorandum in the ...
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... Editor their afsistance , which he should thankfully have received , had he confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in some instances thought too much crouded ...
... Editor their afsistance , which he should thankfully have received , had he confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in some instances thought too much crouded ...
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... Editor of Shak- Speare may urge a kindred apology in defence of an opinion hazarded in his Prefatory Advertisement ; for when he declared his disbelief in the existence of a genuine likeness of our great Dramatick Writer , he most ...
... Editor of Shak- Speare may urge a kindred apology in defence of an opinion hazarded in his Prefatory Advertisement ; for when he declared his disbelief in the existence of a genuine likeness of our great Dramatick Writer , he most ...
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