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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... perhaps no fpecies of publication whatever , more likely to produce diverfity of opinion than verbal cri- ticifms ; for , as there is no certain criterion of truth , no eftablished principle by which we can decide whether they be be ...
... perhaps no fpecies of publication whatever , more likely to produce diverfity of opinion than verbal cri- ticifms ; for , as there is no certain criterion of truth , no eftablished principle by which we can decide whether they be be ...
Page xvi
... Perhaps we are not to look for his be ginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their leaft perfect writings ; art had fo little , and nature fo large a Thare in what he did , that , for aught I know , the perform- ances of his ...
... Perhaps we are not to look for his be ginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their leaft perfect writings ; art had fo little , and nature fo large a Thare in what he did , that , for aught I know , the perform- ances of his ...
Page xxvii
... perhaps , as it is the most difficult or beautiful , but as it is the first properly to be thought of in the contrivance and courfe of the whole ; and with the fable ought to be confidered the fit difpofition , order , and conduct of ...
... perhaps , as it is the most difficult or beautiful , but as it is the first properly to be thought of in the contrivance and courfe of the whole ; and with the fable ought to be confidered the fit difpofition , order , and conduct of ...
Page xxxii
... perhaps his relation . The genius of our author prompted him to write poetry ; his connection with a player might have given his productions a dramatick turn ; or his own fagacity might have taught him that fame was not incompatible ...
... perhaps his relation . The genius of our author prompted him to write poetry ; his connection with a player might have given his productions a dramatick turn ; or his own fagacity might have taught him that fame was not incompatible ...
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... perhaps have been loft by the dissipation of youth , or the bufy scene of public life ! FARMER . This play must have been written before 1614 , when Jonfon fneers at it in his Bartbolomew Fair . In the latter plays of Shakspeare , he ...
... perhaps have been loft by the dissipation of youth , or the bufy scene of public life ! FARMER . This play must have been written before 1614 , when Jonfon fneers at it in his Bartbolomew Fair . In the latter plays of Shakspeare , he ...
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