The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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Page vii
... such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth demanded my attention , and I here , with no smali pleasure , take leave ...
... such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth demanded my attention , and I here , with no smali pleasure , take leave ...
Page xvii
... to lay down more than their arms , and encamp in a very disorderly and unmilitary form , under no better covering than a large crab - tree ; and there they rested till morning . " This tree is yet standing by the side of the road .
... to lay down more than their arms , and encamp in a very disorderly and unmilitary form , under no better covering than a large crab - tree ; and there they rested till morning . " This tree is yet standing by the side of the road .
Page xxiii
This was the first dawn of better fortune . Shakspeare finding more horses put into his hand than he could hold , hired boys to wait under his inspection , who , when Will Shakspeare was summoned , were immediately to present themselves ...
This was the first dawn of better fortune . Shakspeare finding more horses put into his hand than he could hold , hired boys to wait under his inspection , who , when Will Shakspeare was summoned , were immediately to present themselves ...
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All the materials were ready to their hands ; they had not to invent for themselves , but to adapt an old invention to their own purposes : and at a time when every better apartment was adorned with tapestry ; when even the rooms of the ...
All the materials were ready to their hands ; they had not to invent for themselves , but to adapt an old invention to their own purposes : and at a time when every better apartment was adorned with tapestry ; when even the rooms of the ...
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The next may be said to be rather of a " better leer . " " Verses by Ben Jonson and Shakspeare , occasioned by the motto to the Globe Theatre - Totus mundus agit histrionem . JONSON . " If , but stage actors all the world displays ...
The next may be said to be rather of a " better leer . " " Verses by Ben Jonson and Shakspeare , occasioned by the motto to the Globe Theatre - Totus mundus agit histrionem . JONSON . " If , but stage actors all the world displays ...
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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