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The complete works of William Shakspeare, with notes by the most emiinent ... - Page xxvi
by William Shakespeare - 1838
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefor-e few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden bonder are soon exhausted,- and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspere is, above...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds, up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soonexhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are...
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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
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet...
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