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 xv
He understood Latin pretty well , " says Aubrey ; and this account corresponds exactly with the description of his friend Ben Jonson , who speaks of him as one possessed " of little Latin and less Greek .
He understood Latin pretty well , " says Aubrey ; and this account corresponds exactly with the description of his friend Ben Jonson , who speaks of him as one possessed " of little Latin and less Greek .
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 xxii
Our author fled from the inflexible persecutions of his opponent , to seek a shelter in the metropolis ; and he found friends , and honor , and wealth , and fame , where he had only hoped for an asylum . Sir Thomas Lucy remained to ...
Our author fled from the inflexible persecutions of his opponent , to seek a shelter in the metropolis ; and he found friends , and honor , and wealth , and fame , where he had only hoped for an asylum . Sir Thomas Lucy remained to ...
Page xxx
It was not only printed among his works by his friends , Heminge and Condell , but is mentioned as one of his tragedies by an author , who appears to have been admitted to a sight of his MS . sonnets .
It was not only printed among his works by his friends , Heminge and Condell , but is mentioned as one of his tragedies by an author , who appears to have been admitted to a sight of his MS . sonnets .
Page xxxiv
I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candor , for I loved the man , and do honor his memory , on xxxiv .
I had not told posterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candor , for I loved the man , and do honor his memory , on xxxiv .
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