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Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by ... - Page vii
by Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. * It appears, from the induftirm of Ben Jonson's Bar* air, to have been afted before the year 1590....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought b'cause they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of havingfirst discovered...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries aud collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To In in we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...writer, of which the name re known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed. To him we must ascribe the praise, unless Spenser may divide it with him, of having first discovered...
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