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Page 46
... supposed by some to be fixed to the year 1591 by the earthquake which is mentioned , and which happened eleven years before ; and I cannot but think that Shakespeare had in mind the earthquake in his own country . But did he himself ...
... supposed by some to be fixed to the year 1591 by the earthquake which is mentioned , and which happened eleven years before ; and I cannot but think that Shakespeare had in mind the earthquake in his own country . But did he himself ...
Page 47
... supposed interpolations ( as he describes them ) , and decidedly original . It has a permanent , wilful , dwelling absurdity , which I think we can hardly suppose belonged to any but a very early period ; not after the great good sense ...
... supposed interpolations ( as he describes them ) , and decidedly original . It has a permanent , wilful , dwelling absurdity , which I think we can hardly suppose belonged to any but a very early period ; not after the great good sense ...
Page 103
... supposed date . But it is , in some respects , a strange play for anybody to have thought of writing in Queen Elizabeth's time . There is no pointed praise of Anne Boleyn ; whereas Catherine may be called the heroine ; in Johnson's ...
... supposed date . But it is , in some respects , a strange play for anybody to have thought of writing in Queen Elizabeth's time . There is no pointed praise of Anne Boleyn ; whereas Catherine may be called the heroine ; in Johnson's ...
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