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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... acquaintance in the play - house . He was received into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary ...
... acquaintance in the play - house . He was received into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary ...
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... is no wonder , if , with so many good qualities , he made himself acquainted with the best conversations of those times . Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her , and without doubt OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .
... is no wonder , if , with so many good qualities , he made himself acquainted with the best conversations of those times . Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her , and without doubt OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .
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... acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted , that my lord Southampton at one time ... acquaintance with Ben Jonson began with a remark- able piece of humanity and good - nature : Mr. Jonson , who was at ...
... acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted , that my lord Southampton at one time ... acquaintance with Ben Jonson began with a remark- able piece of humanity and good - nature : Mr. Jonson , who was at ...
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... pleasurable wit and good - nature engaged him in the acquaintance , and en- titled him to the friendship , of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood . Amongst them , it is a story almost 8 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
... pleasurable wit and good - nature engaged him in the acquaintance , and en- titled him to the friendship , of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood . Amongst them , it is a story almost 8 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
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... acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , so it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to consider him as a man that lived in a state of almost universal licence and ignorance : there was no ...
... acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , so it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to consider him as a man that lived in a state of almost universal licence and ignorance : there was no ...
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