“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... performance . See also a wrong accentuation of the word aspect in Mr. Ireland's unmetrical , ungrammatical , harum - scarum Vortigern , which was damned at Drury Lane theatre , April - 1796 - the performance of a madman without a lucid ...
... performance . See also a wrong accentuation of the word aspect in Mr. Ireland's unmetrical , ungrammatical , harum - scarum Vortigern , which was damned at Drury Lane theatre , April - 1796 - the performance of a madman without a lucid ...
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... performance , as he now is , nothing . " Of his own body he was ill , and gave " The clergy ill example . " " The word suggestion , " says the critick , " is here used with great propriety , and seeming know- ledge of the Latin tongue ...
... performance , as he now is , nothing . " Of his own body he was ill , and gave " The clergy ill example . " " The word suggestion , " says the critick , " is here used with great propriety , and seeming know- ledge of the Latin tongue ...
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... performance . * Mr. Johnson's edit . Vol . VIII . p . 171 . 3 I have met with a writer who tells us , that a translation of the Offices was printed by Caxton , in the year 1481 : but such a book never existed . It is a mistake for ...
... performance . * Mr. Johnson's edit . Vol . VIII . p . 171 . 3 I have met with a writer who tells us , that a translation of the Offices was printed by Caxton , in the year 1481 : but such a book never existed . It is a mistake for ...
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... performance on the same subject at Oxford , before King James , 1605. I will transcribe my notice of it from Wake's Rex Platonicus : " Fabulæ ansam dedit antiqua de Regiâ prosapiâ historiola apud Scoto - Britannos celebrata , quæ narrat ...
... performance on the same subject at Oxford , before King James , 1605. I will transcribe my notice of it from Wake's Rex Platonicus : " Fabulæ ansam dedit antiqua de Regiâ prosapiâ historiola apud Scoto - Britannos celebrata , quæ narrat ...
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... performance of this sort , Speed's Tables , and Whatley's Gazetteer : perhaps , however , it may be meant under the name of Crandon ; -but the inquiry is of no importance . It should , I think , be written Credendon ; though better ...
... performance of this sort , Speed's Tables , and Whatley's Gazetteer : perhaps , however , it may be meant under the name of Crandon ; -but the inquiry is of no importance . It should , I think , be written Credendon ; though better ...
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