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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... poet , as his admirers would have wifhed to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , 5 but on wood . Little more of it • Of fome volunteer infidelities , however , Droefhout may be convicted . It is ...
... poet , as his admirers would have wifhed to find . This Portrait is not painted on canvas , like the Chandos Head , 5 but on wood . Little more of it • Of fome volunteer infidelities , however , Droefhout may be convicted . It is ...
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... poet ? From its pointed corners , refem- bling the wings of a bat , which are conftant indi- cations of mifchievous agency , the engraver's ruff would have accorded better with the purfuits of his necromantick countryman , the ...
... poet ? From its pointed corners , refem- bling the wings of a bat , which are conftant indi- cations of mifchievous agency , the engraver's ruff would have accorded better with the purfuits of his necromantick countryman , the ...
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... poet's anno- tators . It may be proper , indeed , to obferve , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who ...
... poet's anno- tators . It may be proper , indeed , to obferve , that a few of these remarks are omitted , because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who ...
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... poet's family , ) that Mr. John Shakspeare in the former part of his life was in good circumftances , fuch perfons being generally chofen into the corporation ; and from his being excufed [ in 1579 ] to pay 4d . weekly , and at a ...
... poet's family , ) that Mr. John Shakspeare in the former part of his life was in good circumftances , fuch perfons being generally chofen into the corporation ; and from his being excufed [ in 1579 ] to pay 4d . weekly , and at a ...
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... poets , and that in the moft agreeable manner that it was poffible for a master of the English language to deliver them ... poet's eldeft child , was baptized , May 26 , 1583. Shakspeare therefore , having been born in April 1564 , was ...
... poets , and that in the moft agreeable manner that it was poffible for a master of the English language to deliver them ... poet's eldeft child , was baptized , May 26 , 1583. Shakspeare therefore , having been born in April 1564 , was ...
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