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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... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the ac- cession of the latter of those two princes to the crown of England . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the ...
... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the ac- cession of the latter of those two princes to the crown of England . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the ...
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... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our histo- rians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shake- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds ...
... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our histo- rians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shake- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds ...
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... king ; and certainly nothing was ever more justly writ- ten than the character of Cardinal Wolsey . He has shown him insolent in his prosperity ; and yet , by a wonderful address , he makes his fall and ruin the sub- ject of general ...
... king ; and certainly nothing was ever more justly writ- ten than the character of Cardinal Wolsey . He has shown him insolent in his prosperity ; and yet , by a wonderful address , he makes his fall and ruin the sub- ject of general ...
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... of Macbeth , but more espe- cially the scene where the king is murdered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both show 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
... of Macbeth , but more espe- cially the scene where the king is murdered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both show 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
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... kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his son . The mind revolts from evident falsehood , and fiction ...
... kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his son . The mind revolts from evident falsehood , and fiction ...
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