Imperfect Hints Towards a New Edition of ShakespearePrinted at the Logographic Press, by J. Walter, for the author, and sold by J. Robson, 1787 |
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... merit - leaving it to fuperior men to select from my crowded variety . The plan of Meffrs . Boydells edition , in having the plates on a large scale , and se- parate , ( like those perhaps of Cooke's voyages ) will exhibit many of the ...
... merit - leaving it to fuperior men to select from my crowded variety . The plan of Meffrs . Boydells edition , in having the plates on a large scale , and se- parate , ( like those perhaps of Cooke's voyages ) will exhibit many of the ...
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... It is strange that a critic fhould ob ferve of this poem - that if it has not fo much merit as the rest of his poems , yet that it has still more iban the fubject deferves . To the Advertisement to the Reader , ( prefixed to ( v )
... It is strange that a critic fhould ob ferve of this poem - that if it has not fo much merit as the rest of his poems , yet that it has still more iban the fubject deferves . To the Advertisement to the Reader , ( prefixed to ( v )
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... merit : This is a derogation I can by no means allow of , and that for the following reafons . Shakespeare died at the age of 53. The unanimous tradition is , that by the uncommon bounty of the then Earl of Southampton , he was enabled ...
... merit : This is a derogation I can by no means allow of , and that for the following reafons . Shakespeare died at the age of 53. The unanimous tradition is , that by the uncommon bounty of the then Earl of Southampton , he was enabled ...
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... merit I think to be rejected . DESIGNS Or Ideas for other Vignettes , may be conceived from a fine one , which is annexed to a volume of the publication of plays , by either Bell or Lowndes . The print in my poffeffion has the names of ...
... merit I think to be rejected . DESIGNS Or Ideas for other Vignettes , may be conceived from a fine one , which is annexed to a volume of the publication of plays , by either Bell or Lowndes . The print in my poffeffion has the names of ...
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... merit in the execution . It was meant however ( which it certainly is ) as an honest compliment to the Poet . 12. The Nymph of Immortality , attended by the Loves , crowning the Buft of Shakef- peare ; by Cypriani , engraved by ...
... merit in the execution . It was meant however ( which it certainly is ) as an honest compliment to the Poet . 12. The Nymph of Immortality , attended by the Loves , crowning the Buft of Shakef- peare ; by Cypriani , engraved by ...
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