The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 14J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... present historical drama was altered by Crowne , and brought on the stage in the year 1680 , under the title of The Miferies of Civil War . Surely the works of Shakspeare could have been little read at that period ; for Crowne , in his ...
... present historical drama was altered by Crowne , and brought on the stage in the year 1680 , under the title of The Miferies of Civil War . Surely the works of Shakspeare could have been little read at that period ; for Crowne , in his ...
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... present speaker . Shakspeare was led into this inconsistency by the author of the original plays : if indeed there was but one au- thor , for this circumstance might lead us to suspect that the first and fecond part of The Contention ...
... present speaker . Shakspeare was led into this inconsistency by the author of the original plays : if indeed there was but one au- thor , for this circumstance might lead us to suspect that the first and fecond part of The Contention ...
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... his contemporaries as - a word of three fyllables . MALONE . But not as in the present instance , where such a trifyllable must prove offenfive to the ear . STEEVENS . K. HEN . Henry the fourth by conquest got the KING HENRY VI . 13.
... his contemporaries as - a word of three fyllables . MALONE . But not as in the present instance , where such a trifyllable must prove offenfive to the ear . STEEVENS . K. HEN . Henry the fourth by conquest got the KING HENRY VI . 13.
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... presents these : " Come , coufin of Exeter , stay thou here , " For Clifford and those northern lords be gone , " I fear towards Wakefield , to disturb the duke . " See p . 16 , n . 2 , and the notes there referred to . MALONE . CA ...
... presents these : " Come , coufin of Exeter , stay thou here , " For Clifford and those northern lords be gone , " I fear towards Wakefield , to disturb the duke . " See p . 16 , n . 2 , and the notes there referred to . MALONE . CA ...
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... present at this battle , not returning out of Scotland till fome little time after . This insurrection , which the Duke , not in breach of , but in strict conformity with his oath to the King , and in dif- * Intend here to besiege you ...
... present at this battle , not returning out of Scotland till fome little time after . This insurrection , which the Duke , not in breach of , but in strict conformity with his oath to the King , and in dif- * Intend here to besiege you ...
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