Shakespeare's Editors and CommentatorsJ. R. Smith, 1865 - 52 pages |
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... character of his last illness , & c . , the whole Illustrated by numerous Engravings and Facsimiles , executed on wood by J. T. Blight , F. W. Fairholt , and J. H. Rimbault , from Sketches by the two former , the Facsimiles by E. W. ...
... character of his last illness , & c . , the whole Illustrated by numerous Engravings and Facsimiles , executed on wood by J. T. Blight , F. W. Fairholt , and J. H. Rimbault , from Sketches by the two former , the Facsimiles by E. W. ...
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... character of his last illness , & c . , the whole Illustrated by numerous Engravings and Facsimiles , executed on wood by J. T. Blight , F. W. Fairholt , and J. H. Rimbault , from Sketches by the two former , the Facsimiles by E. W. ...
... character of his last illness , & c . , the whole Illustrated by numerous Engravings and Facsimiles , executed on wood by J. T. Blight , F. W. Fairholt , and J. H. Rimbault , from Sketches by the two former , the Facsimiles by E. W. ...
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... character in the Merchant of Venice - the passage itself shows that neither Shake- speare's Portia , nor ( as I suggested in my second ed . of Webster ) Portia , the wife of Brutus , is the person in question . Whoever that personage ...
... character in the Merchant of Venice - the passage itself shows that neither Shake- speare's Portia , nor ( as I suggested in my second ed . of Webster ) Portia , the wife of Brutus , is the person in question . Whoever that personage ...
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... character which conceit and ignorance are ever bent to impress upon it . To clear up an obscurity the approved practice was to borrow light from Shakespeare's time - fellows , where none was reflected by himself , and not with- out more ...
... character which conceit and ignorance are ever bent to impress upon it . To clear up an obscurity the approved practice was to borrow light from Shakespeare's time - fellows , where none was reflected by himself , and not with- out more ...
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... , dull - eyed melancholy , By me so us'd a guest- " which may be regarded as a forerunner of " To be or not to be ; ' whilst Helicanus is undoubtedly the same character as Polonius , 1 ON THE SUCCESSION OF SHAKSPERE'S EARLIEST PLAYS.
... , dull - eyed melancholy , By me so us'd a guest- " which may be regarded as a forerunner of " To be or not to be ; ' whilst Helicanus is undoubtedly the same character as Polonius , 1 ON THE SUCCESSION OF SHAKSPERE'S EARLIEST PLAYS.
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