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The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E. Malone] with ... - Page lviii
by William Shakespeare - 1832
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...the rest of the world j by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions...supply, and Observation will always find. His persons aft and Kiij speak speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions...: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, sucli as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In tlie writings of other poets a character is too often an indi\idual; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions...the world will always supply, and observation will al\va\ s iind. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions...motion. In the writings of other poets a character racter is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...such as the world will always supply, and obse vatiou will always find, t Us persons act and speak bv the influence of those general passions and principles...system of life is continued in motion. In the writings ot other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and obse, vatiou will always find. His persons :t and speak by the influence of those general passions...which all minds are agitated, and the whole system it life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a naracter is too often an individual;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions...His persons act and speak by the influence of those • 1 general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions...whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writing- of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly...
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Studies in History; Containing the History of England, from Its ..., Volume 2

Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1821 - 542 pages
...of James I. Whitelocke's Memorials. Burnet's History of his own Times. Biog. Britt. &c. &c. sions, which can operate but on small numbers — or by the...opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, suc^i as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak...
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