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All personal reflections , when names are suppressed , must be in a few years
irrecoverably obliterated ; and customs , too minute to attract the notice of law ,
such as modes of dress , formalities of conversation , rules of visits , difposition of
...
All personal reflections , when names are suppressed , must be in a few years
irrecoverably obliterated ; and customs , too minute to attract the notice of law ,
such as modes of dress , formalities of conversation , rules of visits , difposition of
...
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I cannot help being a little apt to distrust the authority of this tradition ; because
his wife survived him seven years , and as his favourite daughter Susannà
survived her twenty - six years , it is very improbable they should suffer such a
treasure ...
I cannot help being a little apt to distrust the authority of this tradition ; because
his wife survived him seven years , and as his favourite daughter Susannà
survived her twenty - six years , it is very improbable they should suffer such a
treasure ...
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... and after her decease to the first son of her body lawfully issuing , and to the
heirs males of the body of the said first son lawfully issuing ; and for default of
such issue , to the second son of her body lawfully issuing , and to the heirs
males of ...
... and after her decease to the first son of her body lawfully issuing , and to the
heirs males of the body of the said first son lawfully issuing ; and for default of
such issue , to the second son of her body lawfully issuing , and to the heirs
males of ...
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I cannot too much muse , Such shapes , such gesture , and such sound ,
expressing ( Although they want the use of tongue ) a kind Of excellent dumb
discourse . Pro . 9 Praise in departing . [ Afide . Fran . They vanish ' d strangely .
Seb .
I cannot too much muse , Such shapes , such gesture , and such sound ,
expressing ( Although they want the use of tongue ) a kind Of excellent dumb
discourse . Pro . 9 Praise in departing . [ Afide . Fran . They vanish ' d strangely .
Seb .
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I have been in such a pickle , since I saw you last , that I fear me , will never out of
my bones : 1 fhall not fear Ay - blowing . Seb . Why , how now , Stephano ? Ste .
O , touch me not : I am not Stephano , but a cramp . Pro . You ' d be king of the ...
I have been in such a pickle , since I saw you last , that I fear me , will never out of
my bones : 1 fhall not fear Ay - blowing . Seb . Why , how now , Stephano ? Ste .
O , touch me not : I am not Stephano , but a cramp . Pro . You ' d be king of the ...
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| Title | Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor Volume 1 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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