The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... probably gave the younger branches of each that tafte for literature which both afterwards ardently cultivated . The firft part of Mr. Steevens's education he re- ceived under Mr. Wooddefon , at Kingston - upon - Thames , where he had ...
... probably gave the younger branches of each that tafte for literature which both afterwards ardently cultivated . The firft part of Mr. Steevens's education he re- ceived under Mr. Wooddefon , at Kingston - upon - Thames , where he had ...
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... probably written as foon as they were befpoke , and before their author had found opportunity or inclination to compare the plate with its original . He might previously have known that the picture conveyed a juft refemblance of Shak ...
... probably written as foon as they were befpoke , and before their author had found opportunity or inclination to compare the plate with its original . He might previously have known that the picture conveyed a juft refemblance of Shak ...
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... probably the ornament of a club - room in Eaficheap , round which other refemblances of contemporary poets and players might have been arranged : that the Boar's Head , the scene of Falstaff's jollity , might alfo have been the ...
... probably the ornament of a club - room in Eaficheap , round which other refemblances of contemporary poets and players might have been arranged : that the Boar's Head , the scene of Falstaff's jollity , might alfo have been the ...
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... probably painted for a perfon- age of diftinction , and might therefore have belonged to the celebrated Earl whom Shakspeare had pre- viously complimented by the dedication of his Venus and Adonis . Surely , it is not unreasonable to ...
... probably painted for a perfon- age of diftinction , and might therefore have belonged to the celebrated Earl whom Shakspeare had pre- viously complimented by the dedication of his Venus and Adonis . Surely , it is not unreasonable to ...
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... probably left be- hind him no fuch memorial of his face . As he was careless of the future ftate of his works , his folici- tude might not have extended to the perpetuation of his looks . Had any portrait of him exifted , we may ...
... probably left be- hind him no fuch memorial of his face . As he was careless of the future ftate of his works , his folici- tude might not have extended to the perpetuation of his looks . Had any portrait of him exifted , we may ...
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