The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesJ. Nichols and son, 1813 |
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... persons with whom through life he scarcely seemed to have a shade of difference of opinion ; but those three were gentlemen with whom it was not possible for the most captious person to have differed - Dr . Farmer , Mr. Tyrwhitt , and ...
... persons with whom through life he scarcely seemed to have a shade of difference of opinion ; but those three were gentlemen with whom it was not possible for the most captious person to have differed - Dr . Farmer , Mr. Tyrwhitt , and ...
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... persons of various and first - rate talents , that it would appear like presumption in any one , and especially in him whose name is subscribed to this Advertisement , to imagine himself capable of adding any thing on so exhausted a ...
... persons of various and first - rate talents , that it would appear like presumption in any one , and especially in him whose name is subscribed to this Advertisement , to imagine himself capable of adding any thing on so exhausted a ...
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... person represented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his resemblance was most likely to have been secured . It has ...
... person represented agrees with the date on the back of the picture . In 1597 our author was in his 33d year , and in the meridian of his reputation , a period at which his resemblance was most likely to have been secured . It has ...
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... person it was designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they ...
... person it was designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they ...
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... person who should have told him that Shakspeare himself was a natural son of Queen Elizabeth . An additional and no less pleasant proof of Aubrey's cullibility , may be found at the conclusion of one of his own Letters to Mr. Ray ...
... person who should have told him that Shakspeare himself was a natural son of Queen Elizabeth . An additional and no less pleasant proof of Aubrey's cullibility , may be found at the conclusion of one of his own Letters to Mr. Ray ...
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