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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... never vain enough to fuppofe the edit . 1778 was entitled to this encomium , I can find no difficulty in allowing that it has been properly recalled by the gentleman who bestowed it . See his Preface ; and his Letter to the Reverend Dr ...
... never vain enough to fuppofe the edit . 1778 was entitled to this encomium , I can find no difficulty in allowing that it has been properly recalled by the gentleman who bestowed it . See his Preface ; and his Letter to the Reverend Dr ...
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... never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a difadvantage to him or no , may admit of a difpute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not im- probable but that the ...
... never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a difadvantage to him or no , may admit of a difpute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not im- probable but that the ...
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... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he ...
... never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he ...
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... never blotted out a line . My anfwer hath " been , Would he had blotted a thoufand ! which they 66 thought a malevolent fpeech . I had not told potterity " this , but for their ignorance , who chofe that circumitance " to commend their ...
... never blotted out a line . My anfwer hath " been , Would he had blotted a thoufand ! which they 66 thought a malevolent fpeech . I had not told potterity " this , but for their ignorance , who chofe that circumitance " to commend their ...
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... never told her love , " But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , " Feed on her damafk cheek : fhe pin'd in thought , " And fate like Patience on a monument , " Smiling at Grief . " What an image is here given ! and what a task ...
... never told her love , " But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , " Feed on her damafk cheek : fhe pin'd in thought , " And fate like Patience on a monument , " Smiling at Grief . " What an image is here given ! and what a task ...
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