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William Shakespeare. THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . Contents of Vol . I. THE TEMPEST . TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . TWELFTH - NIGHT ; OR , WHAT YOU WILL . W. WILSON , Printer , 4 , Greville - Street.
William Shakespeare. THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . Contents of Vol . I. THE TEMPEST . TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . TWELFTH - NIGHT ; OR , WHAT YOU WILL . W. WILSON , Printer , 4 , Greville - Street.
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... Windsor . How well she was obeyed , the play itself is an admirable proof . Upon this occasion it may not be improper to ob- serve , that this part of Falstaff is said to have been written originally under the name of Oldcastle : some ...
... Windsor . How well she was obeyed , the play itself is an admirable proof . Upon this occasion it may not be improper to ob- serve , that this part of Falstaff is said to have been written originally under the name of Oldcastle : some ...
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... Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the rest , however they are called , have something of both kinds . It is not very easy to determine which way of writing he was most excellent in ...
... Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the rest , however they are called , have something of both kinds . It is not very easy to determine which way of writing he was most excellent in ...
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... Windsor he has made him a deer - stealer , that he might at the same time remember his Warwickshire prosecutor , under the name of Justice Shallow ; he has given him very near the same coat of arms which Dugdale , in his Antiquities of ...
... Windsor he has made him a deer - stealer , that he might at the same time remember his Warwickshire prosecutor , under the name of Justice Shallow ; he has given him very near the same coat of arms which Dugdale , in his Antiquities of ...
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... credible , that Shakspeare might sometimes sink below his highest flights , than that any other should rise up to his lowest . - JOHNSON . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . PERSONS REPRESENTED . Sir John 140 TWO GENTLEMEN , & c . [ ACT V.
... credible , that Shakspeare might sometimes sink below his highest flights , than that any other should rise up to his lowest . - JOHNSON . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR . PERSONS REPRESENTED . Sir John 140 TWO GENTLEMEN , & c . [ ACT V.
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Page xli - A quibble, poor and 15 barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.