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... Tonson , at Shakespear's Head over- against Catherine - Street in the Strand . 1713 . EXCESSIVELY RARE IN UNCUT STATE . £ 36 This play was suggested to Addison by the performance which he saw at Venice - its success was unprecedented on ...
... Tonson , at Shakespear's Head over- against Catherine - Street in the Strand . 1713 . EXCESSIVELY RARE IN UNCUT STATE . £ 36 This play was suggested to Addison by the performance which he saw at Venice - its success was unprecedented on ...
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... Tonson . Small 8vo . Old calf . 1733 . £ 1 5s 7 THE SPECTATOR . Vignette title to each volume . 8 vols . 8vo . Original calf gilt backs . London , Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson , 1757 . £ 4 4s 8 ADDISONIANA . To Her Royal ...
... Tonson . Small 8vo . Old calf . 1733 . £ 1 5s 7 THE SPECTATOR . Vignette title to each volume . 8 vols . 8vo . Original calf gilt backs . London , Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson , 1757 . £ 4 4s 8 ADDISONIANA . To Her Royal ...
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... Tonson , 1711 . £ 14 14S 117 BEAUMONT ( Sir John ) . BOSWORTH - FIELD ; with a Taste of the Variety of other Poems , left by Sir John Beaumont , set forth by his Sonne . FIRST EDITION . Small 8vo . Full new mottled calf gilt , g . e ...
... Tonson , 1711 . £ 14 14S 117 BEAUMONT ( Sir John ) . BOSWORTH - FIELD ; with a Taste of the Variety of other Poems , left by Sir John Beaumont , set forth by his Sonne . FIRST EDITION . Small 8vo . Full new mottled calf gilt , g . e ...
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... Tonson , 1679 . With a Dedicatory Epistle to Nell Gwyn . 123 BELGIUM . D'AUVERGNE ( Edward ) . £ 5 5s THE HISTORY OF THE LAST CAMPAGNE IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS , ANNO DOM . 1693 . With an Exact Draught of the several Attacks of the ...
... Tonson , 1679 . With a Dedicatory Epistle to Nell Gwyn . 123 BELGIUM . D'AUVERGNE ( Edward ) . £ 5 5s THE HISTORY OF THE LAST CAMPAGNE IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS , ANNO DOM . 1693 . With an Exact Draught of the several Attacks of the ...
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... Tonson , 1698 . £ 225 In 1697 Congreve was attacked by Jeremy Collier in a " View of the Im- morality and Profaneness of the English Stage . " He replied with the above Pamphlet . Although the critical principles laid down by Collier ...
... Tonson , 1698 . £ 225 In 1697 Congreve was attacked by Jeremy Collier in a " View of the Im- morality and Profaneness of the English Stage . " He replied with the above Pamphlet . Although the critical principles laid down by Collier ...
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Page 184 - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
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Page 184 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.
Page 346 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
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