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 vii
... Wives of Windsor , one of Shakspeare's best , and most justly admired comedies : whoever reads that play , will immedi- ately see , there was nothing either proper or possible for this work ; which , such as it is , I most sincerely and ...
... Wives of Windsor , one of Shakspeare's best , and most justly admired comedies : whoever reads that play , will immedi- ately see , there was nothing either proper or possible for this work ; which , such as it is , I most sincerely and ...
Page xii
... 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 this exception in his favor was made in consequence of the pecuniary embarrassments ...
... 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 this exception in his favor was made in consequence of the pecuniary embarrassments ...
Page xiii
... wife and children , by his original trade as a wool - stapler , had recourse to the inferior occupation of a butcher ; and , if the tale be founded in fact , which Aubrey says " he was told heretofore by some of his neighbours , " then ...
... wife and children , by his original trade as a wool - stapler , had recourse to the inferior occupation of a butcher ; and , if the tale be founded in fact , which Aubrey says " he was told heretofore by some of his neighbours , " then ...
Page xiv
... 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 already a wife and three children dependent on his exertions for support . Malone ...
... 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 already a wife and three children dependent on his exertions for support . Malone ...
Page xxi
... 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 in- stances , detected as too credulous in ...
... 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 in- stances , detected as too credulous in ...
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