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 xxi
... if he had dared , so soon after the death of Joshua Barnes , to advance a story of this kind as a notorious fact , when , had it been a fiction , any of the professor's friends would have had an opportunity of contradicting him .
... if he had dared , so soon after the death of Joshua Barnes , to advance a story of this kind as a notorious fact , when , had it been a fiction , any of the professor's friends would have had an opportunity of contradicting him .
Page xxiv
From the occasional introduction of allegorical characters , such as Faith , Death , Hope , or Sin , into these religious dramas , representations of another kind , called MORALITIES , had by degrees arisen , of which the plots were ...
From the occasional introduction of allegorical characters , such as Faith , Death , Hope , or Sin , into these religious dramas , representations of another kind , called MORALITIES , had by degrees arisen , of which the plots were ...
Page xxxiv
The pamphlet from which the above passage is extracted was published after his death by Henry Chettle ; and the editor , after he had given it to the world , was so satisfied of the falsehood of the charges insinuated against our author ...
The pamphlet from which the above passage is extracted was published after his death by Henry Chettle ; and the editor , after he had given it to the world , was so satisfied of the falsehood of the charges insinuated against our author ...
Page xxxvi
This custom , as his brother's fame enlarged , and his dramatic entertainments grew the greatest support of our principal , if not of all our theatres , he continued it seems so long after his brother's death as even to the latter end ...
This custom , as his brother's fame enlarged , and his dramatic entertainments grew the greatest support of our principal , if not of all our theatres , he continued it seems so long after his brother's death as even to the latter end ...
Page xlvi
This anecdote was written nearly a hundred years after the death of our author , and more than seventy after the death of Jonson . Even supposing all the circumstances to be correct , it only represents Jonson as maintaining an opinion ...
This anecdote was written nearly a hundred years after the death of our author , and more than seventy after the death of Jonson . Even supposing all the circumstances to be correct , it only represents Jonson as maintaining an opinion ...
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