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Page iv
From the price of forty guineas paid for the supposed portrait of our author to Mrs.
Barry , the real value of it should not be inferred . The poffeffion of somewhat
more animated than canvas , might have been included , though not fpecified ,
ina ...
From the price of forty guineas paid for the supposed portrait of our author to Mrs.
Barry , the real value of it should not be inferred . The poffeffion of somewhat
more animated than canvas , might have been included , though not fpecified ,
ina ...
Page xv
It is unlucky for him , perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his
editors a material difference should subfift . The former wish to meet with as few
difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because
they ...
It is unlucky for him , perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his
editors a material difference should subfift . The former wish to meet with as few
difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because
they ...
Page xvi
... well acquainted with the phraseology of our author's age , should be at liberty
to restore some apparent meaning to his corrupted lines , and a decent flow to his
obitructed versification . * Sufficient instances of measure thus rendered defe ...
... well acquainted with the phraseology of our author's age , should be at liberty
to restore some apparent meaning to his corrupted lines , and a decent flow to his
obitructed versification . * Sufficient instances of measure thus rendered defe ...
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too frequently indulged ; but to the injudicious tragical interpolator no degree of
favour should be shown , not even to a late Matilda , who , in Mr. Home's Douglas
thought fit to change the obscure intimation with which her part should have ...
too frequently indulged ; but to the injudicious tragical interpolator no degree of
favour should be shown , not even to a late Matilda , who , in Mr. Home's Douglas
thought fit to change the obscure intimation with which her part should have ...
Page xix
... have also occasioned the appearance of more annotations than were
absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requisite that our author , like a Dauphin
Classick , should be reduced to marginal profe for the use of children ; that all his
various ...
... have also occasioned the appearance of more annotations than were
absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requisite that our author , like a Dauphin
Classick , should be reduced to marginal profe for the use of children ; that all his
various ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson (écrivain) |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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