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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... performances by Droefhout will furnish no exception to this remark . Such defective imitations , however , even at this period , are fufficiently common . Several prints from well - known portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Romney ...
... performances by Droefhout will furnish no exception to this remark . Such defective imitations , however , even at this period , are fufficiently common . Several prints from well - known portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Romney ...
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... performance muft now appear , at the time when it was written it might have had fufficient power to irritate a vain , weak , and vindictive magiftrate ; especially as it was affixed to several of his park - gates , and confequently pub ...
... performance muft now appear , at the time when it was written it might have had fufficient power to irritate a vain , weak , and vindictive magiftrate ; especially as it was affixed to several of his park - gates , and confequently pub ...
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... performances of his youth , as they were the most vigorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the beft.5 I would not 3 than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . ] See fuch ...
... performances of his youth , as they were the most vigorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the beft.5 I would not 3 than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . ] See fuch ...
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... performance , fays , - But when I'view'd the people's beaftly rage , " Bent to confound thy grave and learned toil , " That coft thee so much sweat and so much oil , " My indignation I could hardly affuage . Again , in his Dedication of ...
... performance , fays , - But when I'view'd the people's beaftly rage , " Bent to confound thy grave and learned toil , " That coft thee so much sweat and so much oil , " My indignation I could hardly affuage . Again , in his Dedication of ...
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... performances . That this picture was once in the possession of Sir Wm . D'Ave- nant is highly probable ; but it is much more 86 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c . TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOTES, SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.
... performances . That this picture was once in the possession of Sir Wm . D'Ave- nant is highly probable ; but it is much more 86 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c . TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOTES, SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.
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