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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4 It is some time since I first proposed publishing this collecti n ; for Shakspeare was ever , of all modern authors , my chief favor ite ; and during my relaxations from my more severe and nec ssary studies at college , I never ...
4 It is some time since I first proposed publishing this collecti n ; for Shakspeare was ever , of all modern authors , my chief favor ite ; and during my relaxations from my more severe and nec ssary studies at college , I never ...
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... calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey , but on attentive examination its dignity lessens and declines , he may conclude , that whatever pierces no deeper than the ears , can never be ...
... calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey , but on attentive examination its dignity lessens and declines , he may conclude , that whatever pierces no deeper than the ears , can never be ...
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... for the last line of one of his most celebrated speeches , the Seven Ages of Man , in As you like it , is imitated from a poem called the Henriade , which was first published in 1594 , in France , and never translated .
... for the last line of one of his most celebrated speeches , the Seven Ages of Man , in As you like it , is imitated from a poem called the Henriade , which was first published in 1594 , in France , and never translated .
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The ebullitions of high spirits might mislead him ; but the principles and the affections never swerved from what was right . Against such a person , the extreme severity of the magistrate should not have been exerted .
The ebullitions of high spirits might mislead him ; but the principles and the affections never swerved from what was right . Against such a person , the extreme severity of the magistrate should not have been exerted .
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their eyes , we can hardly believe our forefathers to have been so deficient in ingenuity , as to suppose that they never could have conceived the design of converting the common ornaments of their walls into the decorations of their ...
their eyes , we can hardly believe our forefathers to have been so deficient in ingenuity , as to suppose that they never could have conceived the design of converting the common ornaments of their walls into the decorations of their ...
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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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