The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, 1849 - 345 pages |
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Page vi
... kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play criti- cally and regularly through all its parts ; but as this would have swelled the work beyond proper ...
... kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play criti- cally and regularly through all its parts ; but as this would have swelled the work beyond proper ...
Page xx
... kind of retaliation . It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is supposed by Malone to have been written between 1727 and 1730 , " that the learned Mr. Joshua Barnes , late Greek professor of the ...
... kind of retaliation . It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is supposed by Malone to have been written between 1727 and 1730 , " that the learned Mr. Joshua Barnes , late Greek professor of the ...
Page xxi
... kind , and on the same subject , sufficiently authen- ticate themselves . The quibble on the word deer , is one that was familiar with our author ; and , says Whiter , " the lines may be readily conceived to have proceeded from our ...
... kind , and on the same subject , sufficiently authen- ticate themselves . The quibble on the word deer , is one that was familiar with our author ; and , says Whiter , " the lines may be readily conceived to have proceeded from our ...
Page xxiv
... kind , called MORALITIES , had by degrees arisen , of which the plots were more artificial , regular , and connected , and which were entirely formed of such personifications ; but the first rough draught of a regular tragedy and comedy ...
... kind , called MORALITIES , had by degrees arisen , of which the plots were more artificial , regular , and connected , and which were entirely formed of such personifications ; but the first rough draught of a regular tragedy and comedy ...
Page xxviii
... kind that we possess , we have the following stage direction : " Then Noe shall go into the arke with all his familye , his wife excepte . The arke must be boarded round about , and upon the bordes all the beastes and fowles hereafter ...
... kind that we possess , we have the following stage direction : " Then Noe shall go into the arke with all his familye , his wife excepte . The arke must be boarded round about , and upon the bordes all the beastes and fowles hereafter ...
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