The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... circumstances is applicable , understood no Greek ? —I suspect , Rollin's opinion of our philosopher was not founded on this argument . Shakspeare wanted not the stilts of languages to raise him above all other men . The quotation from ...
... circumstances is applicable , understood no Greek ? —I suspect , Rollin's opinion of our philosopher was not founded on this argument . Shakspeare wanted not the stilts of languages to raise him above all other men . The quotation from ...
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... circumstance . " And Mr. Upton is positive that the sweet oblivious antidote , inquired after by Macbeth , could be no- thing but the nepenthe described in the Odyssey , 46 Νηπενθές τ ' ἄχολόν τε , κακών επίληθον ἁπάντων . ” I will not ...
... circumstance . " And Mr. Upton is positive that the sweet oblivious antidote , inquired after by Macbeth , could be no- thing but the nepenthe described in the Odyssey , 46 Νηπενθές τ ' ἄχολόν τε , κακών επίληθον ἁπάντων . ” I will not ...
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... circumstances nearer to his stories , is what I will not take upon me to do : nor indeed is it what I believe ; but rather the con- trary , and that time and accident will bring some of them to light , if not all . " - W. Painter , at ...
... circumstances nearer to his stories , is what I will not take upon me to do : nor indeed is it what I believe ; but rather the con- trary , and that time and accident will bring some of them to light , if not all . " - W. Painter , at ...
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... circumstances of the name , and the misdemeanor , which is supposed to be the old story of deer - stealing , seem fairly to challenge our poet for the author : but they hesitate . - His claim may appear to be confuted by the date 1581 ...
... circumstances of the name , and the misdemeanor , which is supposed to be the old story of deer - stealing , seem fairly to challenge our poet for the author : but they hesitate . - His claim may appear to be confuted by the date 1581 ...
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... circumstance only the supposition of his learning is professedly founded . He was not surely very young , when he was employed to kill calves , and commenced player about eighteen ! —The truth is , that he left his father , for a wife ...
... circumstance only the supposition of his learning is professedly founded . He was not surely very young , when he was employed to kill calves , and commenced player about eighteen ! —The truth is , that he left his father , for a wife ...
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