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Malone supposes that our author was at this time employed in an attorney's office , and gives a long list of quotations from his works , whieh show how familiarly he was acquainted with the terms and the usages of the law , in support ...
Malone supposes that our author was at this time employed in an attorney's office , and gives a long list of quotations from his works , whieh show how familiarly he was acquainted with the terms and the usages of the law , in support ...
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I give it in the words of the author from whom it is taken . Speaking of Bidford , he says , " there were anciently two societies of village - yeomanry in this place , who frequently met under the appellation of Bidford topers .
I give it in the words of the author from whom it is taken . Speaking of Bidford , he says , " there were anciently two societies of village - yeomanry in this place , who frequently met under the appellation of Bidford topers .
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One tradition relates , that his original office was that of call - boy , or prompter's attendant ; whose employment it is , to give the performers notice to be ready to enter , as often as the business of the play requires their ...
One tradition relates , that his original office was that of call - boy , or prompter's attendant ; whose employment it is , to give the performers notice to be ready to enter , as often as the business of the play requires their ...
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... embellishments requisite to give effect to a dramatic representation , and could therefore estimate the absurdity of those shallow contrivances , and mean substitutes for scenery , which were devised by the ignorance of the clowns ?
... embellishments requisite to give effect to a dramatic representation , and could therefore estimate the absurdity of those shallow contrivances , and mean substitutes for scenery , which were devised by the ignorance of the clowns ?
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This task , however beneficial to the interests of his theatre , and necessary to give attraction to the pieces themselves , was viewed with an eye of jealousy by the * There is no such play extant as Love's Labor Won .
This task , however beneficial to the interests of his theatre , and necessary to give attraction to the pieces themselves , was viewed with an eye of jealousy by the * There is no such play extant as Love's Labor Won .
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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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