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Page 180
... give any unusual appearance to the scene ; and he that could modulate his voice in a female tone might play the women very successfully . It is observed in Downes's Memoirs of the Playhouse , that one of these counterfeit heroines moved ...
... give any unusual appearance to the scene ; and he that could modulate his voice in a female tone might play the women very successfully . It is observed in Downes's Memoirs of the Playhouse , that one of these counterfeit heroines moved ...
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... give no certain or definite image . He might have put maiden wreaths , or maiden garlands , but he perhaps bestowed no thought upon it , and neither genius nor practice will always supply a hasty writer with diction . the most proper V ...
... give no certain or definite image . He might have put maiden wreaths , or maiden garlands , but he perhaps bestowed no thought upon it , and neither genius nor practice will always supply a hasty writer with diction . the most proper V ...
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... gives his master Charles . His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
... gives his master Charles . His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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