Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... appears by the register and public writings relating to that town , were of good figure and fashion there , and are mentioned as gentlemen . His father , who was a considerable dealer in wool , had so large a family , ten children in ...
... appears by the register and public writings relating to that town , were of good figure and fashion there , and are mentioned as gentlemen . His father , who was a considerable dealer in wool , had so large a family , ten children in ...
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... appears in it such a deadly spirit of revenge , such a savage fierceness and fellness , and such a bloody designa- tion of cruelty and mischief , as cannot agree either with the style or characters of comedy . The play itself , take it ...
... appears in it such a deadly spirit of revenge , such a savage fierceness and fellness , and such a bloody designa- tion of cruelty and mischief , as cannot agree either with the style or characters of comedy . The play itself , take it ...
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... appear , as where he gives his imagina- tion an entire loose , and raises his fancy to a flight above mankind , and the limits of the visible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempest , A Midsummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and ...
... appear , as where he gives his imagina- tion an entire loose , and raises his fancy to a flight above mankind , and the limits of the visible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempest , A Midsummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and ...
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... appear to me , without envious malignity or superstitious ver.eration . No question can be more innocently dis- cussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candour higher than ...
... appear to me , without envious malignity or superstitious ver.eration . No question can be more innocently dis- cussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candour higher than ...
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... advantage ; he came to London a needy adventurer , and lived for a time by very mean employments . Many works of genius and learning nave been performed in states of life that appear very little 58 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... advantage ; he came to London a needy adventurer , and lived for a time by very mean employments . Many works of genius and learning nave been performed in states of life that appear very little 58 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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