Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... English language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family man- ner , he thought fit to ...
... English language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family man- ner , he thought fit to ...
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... English taste , that though the severer critics among us cannot bear it , yet the generality of our audiences seem to be better pleased with it than with an exact tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The ...
... English taste , that though the severer critics among us cannot bear it , yet the generality of our audiences seem to be better pleased with it than with an exact tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The ...
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... English or Roman history , let any man compare them , and he will find the character as exact in the poet as the historian . He seems indeed so far from proposing to himself any one action for a subject , that the title very often tells ...
... English or Roman history , let any man compare them , and he will find the character as exact in the poet as the historian . He seems indeed so far from proposing to himself any one action for a subject , that the title very often tells ...
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... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from barbarity . The philology of Italy had been transplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned languages had been successfully ...
... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from barbarity . The philology of Italy had been transplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned languages had been successfully ...
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... English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new subjects ; he dilated some of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
... English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new subjects ; he dilated some of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
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