“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... Latin and less Greek would still be litigated , and you see very assuredly that I was not mistaken . The trumpet hath been sounded against " the darling project of representing Shakspeare as one of the illiterate vulgar ; " and indeed ...
... Latin and less Greek would still be litigated , and you see very assuredly that I was not mistaken . The trumpet hath been sounded against " the darling project of representing Shakspeare as one of the illiterate vulgar ; " and indeed ...
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... but , I think , this critick himself hath scarcely set in opposition the learning of Shakspeare and Jonson * " Though thou hadst small Latin , " & c . When a superiority is universally granted , it by no LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE . 11.
... but , I think , this critick himself hath scarcely set in opposition the learning of Shakspeare and Jonson * " Though thou hadst small Latin , " & c . When a superiority is universally granted , it by no LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE . 11.
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... Latin in a whole week . " This appears very probable ; and a pleasant proof it is of the general learning of the times , and of Shakspeare in particular . I wonder , he did not corroborate it with an extract from her injunctions to her ...
... Latin in a whole week . " This appears very probable ; and a pleasant proof it is of the general learning of the times , and of Shakspeare in particular . I wonder , he did not corroborate it with an extract from her injunctions to her ...
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... Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English straid : " Thus ' twixt one Plutarch there's more difference , " Than i'th ' same Englishman return'd from France . " 6 VOL . II . C so in the modern translation : but ...
... Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English straid : " Thus ' twixt one Plutarch there's more difference , " Than i'th ' same Englishman return'd from France . " 6 VOL . II . C so in the modern translation : but ...
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... , upon which much argumentation for his learning hath been founded : and hence literatim the epitaph on Timon , which it was once presumed , he had corrected from the blunders of the Latin version , by his own superior 18 AN ESSAY ON THE.
... , upon which much argumentation for his learning hath been founded : and hence literatim the epitaph on Timon , which it was once presumed , he had corrected from the blunders of the Latin version , by his own superior 18 AN ESSAY ON THE.
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