The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page xvii
... character of Falitaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that the commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to fhow him in . love . This is faid to be the occafion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windfor . How well ...
... character of Falitaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that the commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to fhow him in . love . This is faid to be the occafion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windfor . How well ...
Page xxi
... character of the man is best seen in his writings . But fince Ben Jonfon has made a fort of an effay towards it in his Discoveries , I will give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an " honour to ...
... character of the man is best seen in his writings . But fince Ben Jonfon has made a fort of an effay towards it in his Discoveries , I will give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an " honour to ...
Page xxii
... characters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falftaff is allowed by every body to be a master- piece ; the character is always well sustained , though drawn out out into the length of three plays ; and even xxii SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ...
... characters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falftaff is allowed by every body to be a master- piece ; the character is always well sustained , though drawn out out into the length of three plays ; and even xxii SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ...
Page xxiii
... character there was hardly any play writ in that time , are all very entertaining : and , I believe , Therfites in Troilus and Creffida , and Ape- mantus in Timon , will be allowed to be mafter - pieces of ill- nature , and fatirical ...
... character there was hardly any play writ in that time , are all very entertaining : and , I believe , Therfites in Troilus and Creffida , and Ape- mantus in Timon , will be allowed to be mafter - pieces of ill- nature , and fatirical ...
Page xxiv
... characters of comedy . The play itself , take it altogether , seems to me to be one of the most finished of any of Shakspeare's . The tale indeed , in that part relating to the cafkets , and the extravagant and unufual kind of bond ...
... characters of comedy . The play itself , take it altogether , seems to me to be one of the most finished of any of Shakspeare's . The tale indeed , in that part relating to the cafkets , and the extravagant and unufual kind of bond ...
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