The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... copies only for his friends , 1778 ; the sixth volume of Dr. Young's Works , 1778 , 12mo . " Biographia Dramatica , " 2 volumes , 8vo . 1782 , founded upon " Baker's Companion to the Playhouse : " the biographical department of this ...
... copies only for his friends , 1778 ; the sixth volume of Dr. Young's Works , 1778 , 12mo . " Biographia Dramatica , " 2 volumes , 8vo . 1782 , founded upon " Baker's Companion to the Playhouse : " the biographical department of this ...
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... copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
... copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
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... copies of it , in which the inanimate part of the composition may be safely followed . The mere outline in half of the plate that accompanies the finished one , will serve to ascertain how far these supplements have been adopted . To ...
... copies of it , in which the inanimate part of the composition may be safely followed . The mere outline in half of the plate that accompanies the finished one , will serve to ascertain how far these supplements have been adopted . To ...
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... copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they are all unlike each other , and convey no distinct resemblance Such , we think , were the ...
... copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they are all unlike each other , and convey no distinct resemblance Such , we think , were the ...
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... Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
... Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
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