The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 12J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the man who doubts of the learning of Shakspeare , hath none of his own : " the latter , above regarding the attack in his private ca ...
... John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the man who doubts of the learning of Shakspeare , hath none of his own : " the latter , above regarding the attack in his private ca ...
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... John Stowe's Summarie , 8vo . 1607 , p . 574 . The story appeared before in a 4to . pamphlet , 1605. It is omit- ted in the folio chronicle , 1631 . • These , however , he assures Mr. Hill , were the property of Dr. Arbuthnot . And in ...
... John Stowe's Summarie , 8vo . 1607 , p . 574 . The story appeared before in a 4to . pamphlet , 1605. It is omit- ted in the folio chronicle , 1631 . • These , however , he assures Mr. Hill , were the property of Dr. Arbuthnot . And in ...
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... John Taylor , the Water - poet , declares that he never learned his Accidence , and that Latin and French were to him Heathen - Greek ; yet by the help of Mr. Whalley's argument , I will prove him a learned man , in spite of every thing ...
... John Taylor , the Water - poet , declares that he never learned his Accidence , and that Latin and French were to him Heathen - Greek ; yet by the help of Mr. Whalley's argument , I will prove him a learned man , in spite of every thing ...
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... John Taylor , and a whole poem upon it into the bargain . You perceive , my dear sir , how vague and inde- terminate such arguments must be : for in fact this sweet swan of Thames , as Mr. Pope calls him , hath more scraps of Latin ...
... John Taylor , and a whole poem upon it into the bargain . You perceive , my dear sir , how vague and inde- terminate such arguments must be : for in fact this sweet swan of Thames , as Mr. Pope calls him , hath more scraps of Latin ...
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... John Higgins , one of the assistants in The Mirrour for Magistrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more conversant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than ...
... John Higgins , one of the assistants in The Mirrour for Magistrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had been more conversant in the ancient lite- rature of other countries , than ...
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