The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Page xxv
... Shak- speare's time , did not mean one who took exorbitant , but any interest or usance for money , and that ten in the hundred , or ten per cent . , was then the ordinary interest of money . It would have been of more con- sequence ...
... Shak- speare's time , did not mean one who took exorbitant , but any interest or usance for money , and that ten in the hundred , or ten per cent . , was then the ordinary interest of money . It would have been of more con- sequence ...
Page xxviii
... Shak- " speare's monument , then newly erected in West- ❝minster Abbey . " This story appears to have originated with Anthony Wood , and it has been thought a presumption of its being true , that , after careful examination , Mr ...
... Shak- " speare's monument , then newly erected in West- ❝minster Abbey . " This story appears to have originated with Anthony Wood , and it has been thought a presumption of its being true , that , after careful examination , Mr ...
Page xxxviii
... Shak- speare's works may be overloaded with criticism , for what writer has excited so much curiosity , and so many opinions ? but Johnson's preface is an accompaniment ' worthy of the genius it celebrates . - His own edition followed ...
... Shak- speare's works may be overloaded with criticism , for what writer has excited so much curiosity , and so many opinions ? but Johnson's preface is an accompaniment ' worthy of the genius it celebrates . - His own edition followed ...
Page xxxix
... Shak- speare the very high rank he was destined to hold , he became the promising object of fraud and imposture . This we have already observed , he did not wholly es- cape in his own time , and he had the spirit or policy to despise it ...
... Shak- speare the very high rank he was destined to hold , he became the promising object of fraud and imposture . This we have already observed , he did not wholly es- cape in his own time , and he had the spirit or policy to despise it ...
Page xlv
... Shak- speare's time , a continuation of one large field , all in the parish of Stratford . Bishopton is two miles from Stratford , and Welcombe one . For Bishopton , Mr. Theobald erroneously printed Bushaxton , and the error has been ...
... Shak- speare's time , a continuation of one large field , all in the parish of Stratford . Bishopton is two miles from Stratford , and Welcombe one . For Bishopton , Mr. Theobald erroneously printed Bushaxton , and the error has been ...
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