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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BEAUTIES should be so obscured , and that he himself should be made a kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play critically and regularly through all ...
BEAUTIES should be so obscured , and that he himself should be made a kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play critically and regularly through all ...
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It would appear that the above song , the first effort we have received of our author's poetical talents , was not his only attempt at this kind of retaliation . It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is ...
It would appear that the above song , the first effort we have received of our author's poetical talents , was not his only attempt at this kind of retaliation . It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is ...
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The verses , however , which prove not to have been , as was originally supposed , part of the first satirical effusion , but the fragment of another jeu d'esprit of the same kind , and on the same subject , sufficiently authenticate ...
The verses , however , which prove not to have been , as was originally supposed , part of the first satirical effusion , but the fragment of another jeu d'esprit of the same kind , and on the same subject , sufficiently authenticate ...
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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 ...
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In the Chester Mysteries , written in 1268 , and which are the most ancient and complete collection of the kind that we possess , we have the following stage direction : " Then Noe shall go into the arke with all his familye , his wife ...
In the Chester Mysteries , written in 1268 , and which are the most ancient and complete collection of the kind that we possess , we have the following stage direction : " Then Noe shall go into the arke with all his familye , his wife ...
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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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