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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... mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst ...
... mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst ...
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... mean , that his fancy was so loose and extravagant , as to be independent on the rule and government of judgment ; but that what he thought , was commonly so great , so justly and rightly conceived in itself , that it wanted little or ...
... mean , that his fancy was so loose and extravagant , as to be independent on the rule and government of judgment ; but that what he thought , was commonly so great , so justly and rightly conceived in itself , that it wanted little or ...
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... means , and considered as so little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a single writer who attempted both . Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind , but in one ...
... means , and considered as so little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a single writer who attempted both . Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind , but in one ...
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... mean and incommodious habita- tions , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with astonishment , who remembered that they were built without the use of iron ? The English nation , in the time ...
... mean and incommodious habita- tions , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with astonishment , who remembered that they were built without the use of iron ? The English nation , in the time ...
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... had no such advantage ; he came to London a needy adventurer , and lived for a time by very mean employments . Many works of genius and learning nave been performed in states of life that appear very little 58 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... had no such advantage ; he came to London a needy adventurer , and lived for a time by very mean employments . Many works of genius and learning nave been performed in states of life that appear very little 58 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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