Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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Page iii
... honoured name from any controversy or censure to which they may be fairly liable . But the approbation which you expressed , some years ago , of the last of three former pieces enumerated on my title - page , was addressed to me ...
... honoured name from any controversy or censure to which they may be fairly liable . But the approbation which you expressed , some years ago , of the last of three former pieces enumerated on my title - page , was addressed to me ...
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... honour , must she feel that honour to be vitally interested in providing whatever means may be requisite , whether in the way of public encouragement or of legislative institution , to call forth , to cultivate , and to perpetuate that ...
... honour , must she feel that honour to be vitally interested in providing whatever means may be requisite , whether in the way of public encouragement or of legislative institution , to call forth , to cultivate , and to perpetuate that ...
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... honours the glory of reviving to our very senses the noblest dramatic heroines of ancient Greece - not the corrupt antique of the French , nor the mock - antique of any other modern school - but the genuine xxii PREFACE .
... honours the glory of reviving to our very senses the noblest dramatic heroines of ancient Greece - not the corrupt antique of the French , nor the mock - antique of any other modern school - but the genuine xxii PREFACE .
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... honour of the one sex , but the improvement and the happiness of both , are interested in their studying , and causing to be studied , the Shakespearian personations of such an artist , so true in conception and so perfect in expression ...
... honour of the one sex , but the improvement and the happiness of both , are interested in their studying , and causing to be studied , the Shakespearian personations of such an artist , so true in conception and so perfect in expression ...
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... honour ! oh , thine honour ! ' there was a sublimity in the laugh of her sar- casm . " Now , we must affirm , that anything like 6 sarcastic expression of this passage is quite inconsistent with the 24 FEMALE CHARACTERS IN KING JOHN . '
... honour ! oh , thine honour ! ' there was a sublimity in the laugh of her sar- casm . " Now , we must affirm , that anything like 6 sarcastic expression of this passage is quite inconsistent with the 24 FEMALE CHARACTERS IN KING JOHN . '
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