Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... she died on the 2d day of July , in the year 1649 , aged 66. So that she was born in 1583 , when her father could not be full 19 years old ; who was himself born in the year 1564. Nor was she his eldest child , for he had another ...
... she died on the 2d day of July , in the year 1649 , aged 66. So that she was born in 1583 , when her father could not be full 19 years old ; who was himself born in the year 1564. Nor was she his eldest child , for he had another ...
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... she had the start of him in age no less than eight years . She survived him notwithstanding , seven seasons , and died that very year in which the players published the first edition of his works in folio , anno Dom . 1623 , at the age ...
... she had the start of him in age no less than eight years . She survived him notwithstanding , seven seasons , and died that very year in which the players published the first edition of his works in folio , anno Dom . 1623 , at the age ...
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... She was fo well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that she commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to shew him in love . This is faid to be the oc- casion of his ...
... She was fo well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that she commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to shew him in love . This is faid to be the oc- casion of his ...
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... she had three fons , who all died . without children ; and Sufannah , who was his fa- vourite , to Dr. John Hall , a phyfician of good repu- tation in that country . She left one child only , a daughter , who was married first to Thomas ...
... she had three fons , who all died . without children ; and Sufannah , who was his fa- vourite , to Dr. John Hall , a phyfician of good repu- tation in that country . She left one child only , a daughter , who was married first to Thomas ...
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... She never told her love , But let concealment , like a worm i th bud , Feed on ber damask cheek : she pin'd in thought , And fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at grief . What 1 What an image is here given ! and what Some ACCOUNT ...
... She never told her love , But let concealment , like a worm i th bud , Feed on ber damask cheek : she pin'd in thought , And fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at grief . What 1 What an image is here given ! and what Some ACCOUNT ...
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Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
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