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To such a curiosity no very adequate gratification can be afforded ; but yet it may be observed , that as these elder copies poffefs many advantages over those in the fubfequent folio , we should decide perversely were we to pronounce ...
To such a curiosity no very adequate gratification can be afforded ; but yet it may be observed , that as these elder copies poffefs many advantages over those in the fubfequent folio , we should decide perversely were we to pronounce ...
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After the death of our Rofcius , it should have accompanied his collection of old plays to the British Museum ; but had been taken out of his library , and has not been heard of since . Here I might particularize above twenty other ...
After the death of our Rofcius , it should have accompanied his collection of old plays to the British Museum ; but had been taken out of his library , and has not been heard of since . Here I might particularize above twenty other ...
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It should seem that most of his read , ers were so chary of their time , that ( like Pistol , who gnaws his leek and swears all the while , ) they fed and studied at the same instant . I have repeatedly met with thin flakes of piecruft ...
It should seem that most of his read , ers were so chary of their time , that ( like Pistol , who gnaws his leek and swears all the while , ) they fed and studied at the same instant . I have repeatedly met with thin flakes of piecruft ...
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Thank ( fays the editor ) for the scape it hath made amongst you ; Ance , by the grand poffeffors ' wills , I believe , you should have pray'd for them ( r.it ] rather than been pray'd . " - By the grand pfeffors , Shak ( peare and the ...
Thank ( fays the editor ) for the scape it hath made amongst you ; Ance , by the grand poffeffors ' wills , I believe , you should have pray'd for them ( r.it ] rather than been pray'd . " - By the grand pfeffors , Shak ( peare and the ...
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But the method which has been already marked ' out , requires that such facts should be mentioned , as may serve in any manner to elucidate these points . Shakspeare was born on the a3d of April , 1564 , and was probably married in ...
But the method which has been already marked ' out , requires that such facts should be mentioned , as may serve in any manner to elucidate these points . Shakspeare was born on the a3d of April , 1564 , and was probably married in ...
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