“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... performances , and a thousand to one , it is stolen . Sup Suppose it to be his celebrated compliment to the ladies , in one of his earliest pieces , The Toy - shop : " A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy , and adds a ...
... performances , and a thousand to one , it is stolen . Sup Suppose it to be his celebrated compliment to the ladies , in one of his earliest pieces , The Toy - shop : " A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy , and adds a ...
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... performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton's representation . • I find the character of this work pretty early delineated : " ' Twas Greek at first , that Greek was Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English ...
... performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton's representation . • I find the character of this work pretty early delineated : " ' Twas Greek at first , that Greek was Latin made , " That Latin , French ; that French to English ...
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... performance , Palamon and Arcite , a poem little inferior in his opinion to the Iliad or the Æneid , that the name of its author is wholly lost , and Chaucer is now become the original . But he is mistaken : this too was . the work of ...
... performance , Palamon and Arcite , a poem little inferior in his opinion to the Iliad or the Æneid , that the name of its author is wholly lost , and Chaucer is now become the original . But he is mistaken : this too was . the work of ...
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... performance from the hand of Shak- speare . Sometimes a very little matter detects a forgery . You may remember a play called The Double Fals- hood , which Mr. Theobald was desirous of palming upon the world for a posthumous one of ...
... performance from the hand of Shak- speare . Sometimes a very little matter detects a forgery . You may remember a play called The Double Fals- hood , which Mr. Theobald was desirous of palming upon the world for a posthumous one of ...
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... performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not possibly have either read or construed . This very accent has troubled the annotators on Milton . Dr. Bentley observes it to be ...
... performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not possibly have either read or construed . This very accent has troubled the annotators on Milton . Dr. Bentley observes it to be ...
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