The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1851 |
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Page vii
... dramatic poetry . But little more than two cen- turies have elapsed since the death of our author , and almost as much is ascertained of the private life of Homer , as can now be gleaned of WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , of whom little more can ...
... dramatic poetry . But little more than two cen- turies have elapsed since the death of our author , and almost as much is ascertained of the private life of Homer , as can now be gleaned of WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE , of whom little more can ...
Page viii
... dramatic poet , to which he prefixed some biographical particulars , which were communicated by Betterton , the celebrated player , who had visited Warwickshire in order to obtain them : but too long a period had now elapsed : most of ...
... dramatic poet , to which he prefixed some biographical particulars , which were communicated by Betterton , the celebrated player , who had visited Warwickshire in order to obtain them : but too long a period had now elapsed : most of ...
Page xv
... dramatic compositions : on which occasion he was certainly too careless mi- nutely to examine whether particular passages were faithfully rendered or not . That such a mind as his was not idle or incurious , and that at this period of ...
... dramatic compositions : on which occasion he was certainly too careless mi- nutely to examine whether particular passages were faithfully rendered or not . That such a mind as his was not idle or incurious , and that at this period of ...
Page xxvi
... drama , he must have performed the part of Old Knowell in that comedy . A traditionary anecdote relating to our author's dramatic performances , preserved by Mr. Oldys , and communicated to him , as Mr. Malone thinks , by Mr. T. Jones ...
... drama , he must have performed the part of Old Knowell in that comedy . A traditionary anecdote relating to our author's dramatic performances , preserved by Mr. Oldys , and communicated to him , as Mr. Malone thinks , by Mr. T. Jones ...
Page xxvii
... dramas , and to develop those powers which have rendered him the delight and wonder of successive ages . At the time that he became in some degree a public character , we naturally expect to find many anecdotes recorded of his literary ...
... dramas , and to develop those powers which have rendered him the delight and wonder of successive ages . At the time that he became in some degree a public character , we naturally expect to find many anecdotes recorded of his literary ...
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