Comedies: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Taming of the shrew. Much ado about nothing. Love labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Midsummer night's dream. Measure for measure. The tempest. All's well that ends well. Winter's tale |
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It , indeed , has the characteristics of a young author who had already acquired a ready and familiar mastery of poetic diction and varied ... with a poet's eye ; for the play abounds in brief passages of great beauty and melody .
It , indeed , has the characteristics of a young author who had already acquired a ready and familiar mastery of poetic diction and varied ... with a poet's eye ; for the play abounds in brief passages of great beauty and melody .
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... others of the Poet's plays , was less exposed to the corruptions of frequent transcription for theatrical use , and so was first printed from an early and accurate manuscript , -whatever be the reason , offers fewer difficulties and ...
... others of the Poet's plays , was less exposed to the corruptions of frequent transcription for theatrical use , and so was first printed from an early and accurate manuscript , -whatever be the reason , offers fewer difficulties and ...
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But so greatly does public The canker galls the infants of the spring . taste alter with time , that Pope's own verse would be The peculiar canker which our Poet , a close observer of omitted or thrust to the bottom of the page ...
But so greatly does public The canker galls the infants of the spring . taste alter with time , that Pope's own verse would be The peculiar canker which our Poet , a close observer of omitted or thrust to the bottom of the page ...
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They are not poet . He had doubtless not only observed the lazy , in the old copies ; but it is clear from what Speed af- yawning drone , ' but the injurious wasps , ' that plunterwards says , that Proteus had asked the question . dered ...
They are not poet . He had doubtless not only observed the lazy , in the old copies ; but it is clear from what Speed af- yawning drone , ' but the injurious wasps , ' that plunterwards says , that Proteus had asked the question . dered ...
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-yet the ungrateful cur never denies one item of his followers were evidently in our Poet's mind when the facts with which Launce so tenderly reproaches him . he makes Valentine sayNay , what is more wonderful , this enormous outrage on ...
-yet the ungrateful cur never denies one item of his followers were evidently in our Poet's mind when the facts with which Launce so tenderly reproaches him . he makes Valentine sayNay , what is more wonderful , this enormous outrage on ...
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| Title | Comedies: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Taming of the shrew. Much ado about nothing. Love labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Midsummer night's dream. Measure for measure. The tempest. All's well that ends well. Winter's tale Volume 2 of Shakespeare's Plays with His Life: Illustrated with Many Hundred Wood-cuts, Executed by H.W. Hewet, After Designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and Others, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Volume 2 of Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life : Illustrated with Many Hundred Wood-cuts, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Volume 2 of Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Illustrated by | Henry W. Hewet |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1847 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2015 |
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