“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... piece expressly on this side the question : perhaps from a very excusable partiality , he was willing to draw Shakspeare from the field of nature to classick ground , where alone , he knew , his au- thor could possibly cope with him ...
... piece expressly on this side the question : perhaps from a very excusable partiality , he was willing to draw Shakspeare from the field of nature to classick ground , where alone , he knew , his au- thor could possibly cope with him ...
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... pieces were soon to be met with in almost every modern language . * It was originally drawn into Englishe by Caxton under the name of The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy , from the French of the ryght venerable Person and worshipfull ...
... pieces were soon to be met with in almost every modern language . * It was originally drawn into Englishe by Caxton under the name of The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy , from the French of the ryght venerable Person and worshipfull ...
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... pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called so ; but most certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed in his life - time . The fact on which it is built , was per- petrated no sooner than ...
... pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called so ; but most certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed in his life - time . The fact on which it is built , was per- petrated no sooner than ...
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... piece of ice , which was brought to cure a grete brenning heate in his foot : take care you do not interpret this the gout , for I remember Mr. Menage quotes a canon upon us : " Si quis dixerit episcopum PODAGRA laborare , anathema ...
... piece of ice , which was brought to cure a grete brenning heate in his foot : take care you do not interpret this the gout , for I remember Mr. Menage quotes a canon upon us : " Si quis dixerit episcopum PODAGRA laborare , anathema ...
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... piece of Sir John Harrington , printed in 1596 , ( and possibly there may be an earlier edition , ) called , The Metamor- phosis of Ajax , where I suspect an allusion to the old play : " Reade the booke of Taming a Shrew , which hath ...
... piece of Sir John Harrington , printed in 1596 , ( and possibly there may be an earlier edition , ) called , The Metamor- phosis of Ajax , where I suspect an allusion to the old play : " Reade the booke of Taming a Shrew , which hath ...
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