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 vii
... and not one line extracted from the Merry Wives of Windsor , one of Shakspeare's best , and most justly admired comedies : whoever reads that play , will immediately see , there was nothing either proper or possible for this work ...
... and not one line extracted from the Merry Wives of Windsor , one of Shakspeare's best , and most justly admired comedies : whoever reads that play , will immediately see , there was nothing either proper or possible for this work ...
Page xii
In 1578 , Mr. John Shakspeare mortgaged the estate which he had received from his wife ; in the following year he was exempted from the contribution of four - pence a week for the poor , which was paid by the other aldermen ; and that ...
In 1578 , Mr. John Shakspeare mortgaged the estate which he had received from his wife ; in the following year he was exempted from the contribution of four - pence a week for the poor , which was paid by the other aldermen ; and that ...
Page xiii
It was , I should imagine , at this juncture , that his father , no longer able to secure a respectable subsistence for his wife and children , by his original trade as a wool ...
It was , I should imagine , at this juncture , that his father , no longer able to secure a respectable subsistence for his wife and children , by his original trade as a wool ...
Page xiv
The parish register of Stratford informs us that within eighteen months afterwards his wife bore twins , a son and daughter , who were baptized by the names of Hamet and Judith : and thus , when little more than twenty , Shakspeare had ...
The parish register of Stratford informs us that within eighteen months afterwards his wife bore twins , a son and daughter , who were baptized by the names of Hamet and Judith : and thus , when little more than twenty , Shakspeare had ...
Page xxi
He had a wife , Took pains enough to find him horns Should last him during life . " The volume in which this anecdote is found , is not much to be relied upon ; for the author has been , in several instances , detected as too credulous ...
He had a wife , Took pains enough to find him horns Should last him during life . " The volume in which this anecdote is found , is not much to be relied upon ; for the author has been , in several instances , detected as too credulous ...
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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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