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... is completely answered . On any thing like perfection in their labours they do
not presume , being too well convinced that , in defiance of their best efforts , their
own incapacity , and that of the original quarto and folio - mongers , have still left
...
... is completely answered . On any thing like perfection in their labours they do
not presume , being too well convinced that , in defiance of their best efforts , their
own incapacity , and that of the original quarto and folio - mongers , have still left
...
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savingJohn Shakspeare ' and Robert Bruce , who shall not be taxed to pay any
thing ; and every burgess to pay 2d . ,, 66 At the Hall holden on the 6th day of
September , in the 28th year of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth . 66 At this
hall ...
savingJohn Shakspeare ' and Robert Bruce , who shall not be taxed to pay any
thing ; and every burgess to pay 2d . ,, 66 At the Hall holden on the 6th day of
September , in the 28th year of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth . 66 At this
hall ...
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It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing
that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the
natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not superior , to some of the best
of ...
It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing
that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the
natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not superior , to some of the best
of ...
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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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... ancients , he had likewise not stolen any thing from them ; and that if he would
produce any one to pick finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to
Mew something upon the same Subject at least as well written by Shakspeare .
... ancients , he had likewise not stolen any thing from them ; and that if he would
produce any one to pick finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to
Mew something upon the same Subject at least as well written by Shakspeare .
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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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