The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... Jonson had no intimate acquaintance with the graphick art , and might not have been over - solicitous about the style in which Shakspeare's lineaments were transmitted to posterity . G. S. after the life , though he did not add the ...
... Jonson had no intimate acquaintance with the graphick art , and might not have been over - solicitous about the style in which Shakspeare's lineaments were transmitted to posterity . G. S. after the life , though he did not add the ...
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... Jonson , who in the following lines has borne the most ample testimony to the verisimilitude of a portrait which will now be recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , to the publick notice : The tradition that Burbage ...
... Jonson , who in the following lines has borne the most ample testimony to the verisimilitude of a portrait which will now be recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , to the publick notice : The tradition that Burbage ...
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... Jonson , who , on an occasion like this , would hardly have ventured to assert what it was in the power of many of his readers to contradict . When will evidence half so conclusive be produced in favour of the Davenantico - Bettertonian ...
... Jonson , who , on an occasion like this , would hardly have ventured to assert what it was in the power of many of his readers to contradict . When will evidence half so conclusive be produced in favour of the Davenantico - Bettertonian ...
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... Jonson was lately bought at an obscure auction by Mr. Ritson of Gray's Inn , and might once have been companion to the portrait of Shak- speare thus fortunately restored , after having been lost to the publick for a century and a half ...
... Jonson was lately bought at an obscure auction by Mr. Ritson of Gray's Inn , and might once have been companion to the portrait of Shak- speare thus fortunately restored , after having been lost to the publick for a century and a half ...
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... Jonson's name was a circumstance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an encomium which , however open to dispute , appears to have escaped contradiction , either metrical or prosaick , from the surviving ...
... Jonson's name was a circumstance that rendered him immediately responsible for the propriety of an encomium which , however open to dispute , appears to have escaped contradiction , either metrical or prosaick , from the surviving ...
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