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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Malone supposes that our author was at this time employed in an attorney's office , and gives a long list of quotations froni his works , whieh show how ...
Malone supposes that our author was at this time employed in an attorney's office , and gives a long list of quotations froni his works , whieh show how ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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... all the embellishments requisite to give effect to a dramatic representation , and could therefore estimate the absurdity of those shallow contrivances ...
... all the embellishments requisite to give effect to a dramatic representation , and could therefore estimate the absurdity of those shallow contrivances ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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