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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... how in- adequate his powers were to the task imposed on him , and hopes for the indulgence of the reader . He feels that " the inaudible and noiseless foot of time " has infenfibly brought on that period of life and those attendant ...
... how in- adequate his powers were to the task imposed on him , and hopes for the indulgence of the reader . He feels that " the inaudible and noiseless foot of time " has infenfibly brought on that period of life and those attendant ...
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... How far the report on which Mr. Wilfon's nar + ratives ( respecting the place where this picture was met with , & c . ) were built , can be verified by evi- dence at present within reach , is quite immaterial , as our great dramatick ...
... How far the report on which Mr. Wilfon's nar + ratives ( respecting the place where this picture was met with , & c . ) were built , can be verified by evi- dence at present within reach , is quite immaterial , as our great dramatick ...
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... how far these supplements have been adopted . To such scrupulous fidelity the publick ( which has long been amused by inadequate or ideal likenesses of Shakspeare ) has an undoubted claim ; and should any fine ladies and gentlemen of ...
... how far these supplements have been adopted . To such scrupulous fidelity the publick ( which has long been amused by inadequate or ideal likenesses of Shakspeare ) has an undoubted claim ; and should any fine ladies and gentlemen of ...
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... how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone those features can be ascertained ? No man will affert one thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that there is some unequivocal and determined ...
... how is it proved to be a copy from an engraving by which alone those features can be ascertained ? No man will affert one thing to have been imitated from another , without allowing that there is some unequivocal and determined ...
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... 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 genuine representation , how happened it that his next engra- ving of the fame author , in ...
... 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 genuine representation , how happened it that his next engra- ving of the fame author , in ...
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