The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... means are such direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no vestige of the poet's features was discerni- ble in the picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engrav- ing by which alone those features can be ascertained ...
... means are such direct contrarieties of opinion to be reconciled ? If no vestige of the poet's features was discerni- ble in the picture , how is it proved to be a copy from an engrav- ing by which alone those features can be ascertained ...
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... mean while it is asserted by every adequate judge , that the coincidences between the picture and the print under consi- deration , are too strong and too numerous to have been the ef- fects of chance . And yet the period at which this ...
... mean while it is asserted by every adequate judge , that the coincidences between the picture and the print under consi- deration , are too strong and too numerous to have been the ef- fects of chance . And yet the period at which this ...
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... means of injudicious cleaning , or some other accident , has become little better than the " shadow of a shade . " The late Sir Joshua Reynolds in- deed once suggested , that whatever person it was designed for , it might have been left ...
... means of injudicious cleaning , or some other accident , has become little better than the " shadow of a shade . " The late Sir Joshua Reynolds in- deed once suggested , that whatever person it was designed for , it might have been left ...
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... means honourable to our author , however secure respecting ourselves . For what is it , under pretence of restoration , but to use him as he used the tinker in The Taming of a Shrew , -to re - clothe him in his pristine rags ? To ...
... means honourable to our author , however secure respecting ourselves . For what is it , under pretence of restoration , but to use him as he used the tinker in The Taming of a Shrew , -to re - clothe him in his pristine rags ? To ...
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... mean- ing to his corrupted lines , and a decent flow to his obstructed versification . The latter ( as already has been observed ) may be frequently effected by the expulsion of useless and supernume rary syllables , and an occasional ...
... mean- ing to his corrupted lines , and a decent flow to his obstructed versification . The latter ( as already has been observed ) may be frequently effected by the expulsion of useless and supernume rary syllables , and an occasional ...
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