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In plainer terms , that the vitiations * It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio
we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or seventeen of our author's plays .
True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these ...
In plainer terms , that the vitiations * It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio
we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or seventeen of our author's plays .
True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these ...
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Nor is it at all improbable that the person who furnished the revision of the first
folio , wrote a very obscure hand , and was much cramped for room , as the
margin of this book is always narrow , Such being the case , he might often have
been ...
Nor is it at all improbable that the person who furnished the revision of the first
folio , wrote a very obscure hand , and was much cramped for room , as the
margin of this book is always narrow , Such being the case , he might often have
been ...
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... had taken up ; and though it seemed at first to be a blemish upon his good
manners , and a misfortune to him , yet it afterwards happily proved the occasion
of exerting one of the greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry .
... had taken up ; and though it seemed at first to be a blemish upon his good
manners , and a misfortune to him , yet it afterwards happily proved the occasion
of exerting one of the greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry .
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It is at this time , and upon this accident , that he is said to have made his first
acquaintance in the playhouse . He was received into the company then in being
, at first in a very mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the
...
It is at this time , and upon this accident , that he is said to have made his first
acquaintance in the playhouse . He was received into the company then in being
, at first in a very mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the
...
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I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority ,
which was the first play he wrote ; ? it would be without doubt a pleasure to any
man , curious in things of this kind , to see and know what was the first effay of a ...
I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority ,
which was the first play he wrote ; ? it would be without doubt a pleasure to any
man , curious in things of this kind , to see and know what was the first effay of a ...
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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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