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Page 184
... Understanding and Judgment of ordinary Gentlemen ; because they have not had their Education . I defy any one to name so much as one great Actor in my Time , who had had a generous Education ; that is , who had from his Youth been train ...
... Understanding and Judgment of ordinary Gentlemen ; because they have not had their Education . I defy any one to name so much as one great Actor in my Time , who had had a generous Education ; that is , who had from his Youth been train ...
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... Understanding . But the mischief of it is , that there is this difference between a four Leg'd Puppy , and a two Leg'd one ; that whereas a four Leg'd one is Blind but for nine Days , a two Leg'd one does not only come into the World ...
... Understanding . But the mischief of it is , that there is this difference between a four Leg'd Puppy , and a two Leg'd one ; that whereas a four Leg'd one is Blind but for nine Days , a two Leg'd one does not only come into the World ...
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... Understanding , thou hast not lost all Sense of Shame , I shall cause thy dusky Countenance to turn Red , as the Morning does , or as a Lobster boil'd . But having said more already than I design'd to do at present , and you having ...
... Understanding , thou hast not lost all Sense of Shame , I shall cause thy dusky Countenance to turn Red , as the Morning does , or as a Lobster boil'd . But having said more already than I design'd to do at present , and you having ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
Appendix excerpts and miscellaneousContinued X From the Prologue to Gibraltar 1705 | 39 |
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