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The publick is now in possession of as accurate an account of the dates , & c . of Shakspeare's works as perhaps will ever be compiled . This was by far the most irksome part of my undertaking , though facilitated as much as possible by ...
The publick is now in possession of as accurate an account of the dates , & c . of Shakspeare's works as perhaps will ever be compiled . This was by far the most irksome part of my undertaking , though facilitated as much as possible by ...
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... has been investigated , and laid before the publick ; and the avidity with which all communications of this kind have been received , fufficiently proves that the time expended in the pursuit has not been wholly misemployed .
... has been investigated , and laid before the publick ; and the avidity with which all communications of this kind have been received , fufficiently proves that the time expended in the pursuit has not been wholly misemployed .
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Yeti surely it is no incurious speculation to mark the gradations * by which he rose from mediocrity to * It is not pretended that a regular scale of gradual improvement is here presented to the publick : or that , if even Shakfpeare ...
Yeti surely it is no incurious speculation to mark the gradations * by which he rose from mediocrity to * It is not pretended that a regular scale of gradual improvement is here presented to the publick : or that , if even Shakfpeare ...
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... pieces which were produced in the latter part of that period , were less likely to pass through the press in his life - time , as the curiosity of the publick had not been so long engaged by them , as by his early compositions . 2.
... pieces which were produced in the latter part of that period , were less likely to pass through the press in his life - time , as the curiosity of the publick had not been so long engaged by them , as by his early compositions . 2.
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alluded to his having withdrawn himself for some time from the publick , and discontinued writing from “ a disgust he had taken to the then . ill taste of the town and the mean .condition of the flage . " But as Mr. Rowe suppressed this ...
alluded to his having withdrawn himself for some time from the publick , and discontinued writing from “ a disgust he had taken to the then . ill taste of the town and the mean .condition of the flage . " But as Mr. Rowe suppressed this ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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