The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... death of the perfon fuppofed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . " Shakspeare was buried in 1616 ; and in 1708 the first notice of this picture occurs ...
... death of the perfon fuppofed to be represented ; and then , ( as Edmund fays in King Lear ) " come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . " Shakspeare was buried in 1616 ; and in 1708 the first notice of this picture occurs ...
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... death . So ready , however , are interefied people in affift- ing credulous ones to impofe on themfeives , that we will venture to predict , -if fome opulent dupe to the flimfy artifice of Chatterton fhould advertise a confiderable fum ...
... death . So ready , however , are interefied people in affift- ing credulous ones to impofe on themfeives , that we will venture to predict , -if fome opulent dupe to the flimfy artifice of Chatterton fhould advertise a confiderable fum ...
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... death . That oral information concerning his works was ftill acceffible , may with fimilar probability be in- ferred ; as fome of the original and moft knowing performers in his different pieces were then alive ( Lowin and Taylor , for ...
... death . That oral information concerning his works was ftill acceffible , may with fimilar probability be in- ferred ; as fome of the original and moft knowing performers in his different pieces were then alive ( Lowin and Taylor , for ...
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... deaths is afcertained . - His daughter , Sufanna , died , not on the fecond , but the eleventh of July , 1649. Theobald was led into this error by Dugdale . MALONE . 9 His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway , ] She was eight years ...
... deaths is afcertained . - His daughter , Sufanna , died , not on the fecond , but the eleventh of July , 1649. Theobald was led into this error by Dugdale . MALONE . 9 His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway , ] She was eight years ...
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... death , was what Jonfon could not bear : he thought it im- poffible , perhaps , for another man to ftrike out the greatest thoughts in the fineft expreffion , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first ...
... death , was what Jonfon could not bear : he thought it im- poffible , perhaps , for another man to ftrike out the greatest thoughts in the fineft expreffion , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first ...
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