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Account Of, And Extracts From, The Newly Discovered Shakspeare Manuscripts.
ACCOUNT OF , AND EXTRACTS FROM , THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SHAKSPEARE MANUSCRIPTS .
^ HE volume promised by Mr . IRELAND to the world , and which has excited no small degree of curiosity , has at length appeared Criticism has here a noble feast , upon which it may gorge itseff . While the volume , which now appears , has been preparing for the press , many attempts have been made , with ' equal illiberality and malignit y to excite doubts in the public mind with respect to the authenticity of these MSS P
. In his preface Mr . IRELAND says , " that from the first moment of SbouredT ° f thG MSS : Re present hour , he has . incessantl y nee Si , / , nr ^ ?« h » power , to inform himself with respect to the validity of these interesting papers S hUtthiS eiod" eeds he « there has
inln i ° . P 5 ' P' ^ , not been an ingenuous character , or disinterested individual , in the circle of lite- ' Sd he S S % Cr } hC 6 y K e hS haS " been earnest that the ^ ole ¦ S . J ^ d . He has courted , he has even challenged , the cr teal judgment of those who are best skilled in the poetry and phraseology of the times in which SHAKSPEARE lived ; as well as tho e whose profession or course of stud y has made them conversant with
ancient deeds , writings , seals , and autograp hs—Wide and extensive -a ^ this range . may appear , and it includes the scholar , the man of taste the antiquarian , and the herald , his inquiries have not rested in the closet of the speculatist ; he has been equally anxious that the whole it n 1 T ltted ' ? th praCtical experience of the mechanician ! be p onounced upon by the paper-maker , & c . as well as the author e' ee f adn
ant S , t 7 ht " uTT ° , 8 " them in a "y view , a « d unde n Li ! M that °° ul ( J . thrown upon them : and he has in consequence the satisfaction of announcing to the public , that , as far as he has been able to collect the sentiments of the several classes of persons above referred to , they have unanimousl y testified in favou ^^ ZT e T { " , d dedared that > w ,, ere there was such a mass of evidence internal and external it amidst such
, , was impossible , various sources of detection , for the art of imitation to have hazarded so much without betraying itself ; and , consequentl y , that f / S papers can be no other than the production of SHAKSPEARE himself . " * The contents of the volume are , Fac Similies ' of Shakspeare '
s Autographs Queen Elizabeth ' s Letter . ' Extracts from Miscellaneous Papers Note of Hand . f • Letter to Anna Iiatherrewaye . Verses to the same .
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Account Of, And Extracts From, The Newly Discovered Shakspeare Manuscripts.
ACCOUNT OF , AND EXTRACTS FROM , THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SHAKSPEARE MANUSCRIPTS .
^ HE volume promised by Mr . IRELAND to the world , and which has excited no small degree of curiosity , has at length appeared Criticism has here a noble feast , upon which it may gorge itseff . While the volume , which now appears , has been preparing for the press , many attempts have been made , with ' equal illiberality and malignit y to excite doubts in the public mind with respect to the authenticity of these MSS P
. In his preface Mr . IRELAND says , " that from the first moment of SbouredT ° f thG MSS : Re present hour , he has . incessantl y nee Si , / , nr ^ ?« h » power , to inform himself with respect to the validity of these interesting papers S hUtthiS eiod" eeds he « there has
inln i ° . P 5 ' P' ^ , not been an ingenuous character , or disinterested individual , in the circle of lite- ' Sd he S S % Cr } hC 6 y K e hS haS " been earnest that the ^ ole ¦ S . J ^ d . He has courted , he has even challenged , the cr teal judgment of those who are best skilled in the poetry and phraseology of the times in which SHAKSPEARE lived ; as well as tho e whose profession or course of stud y has made them conversant with
ancient deeds , writings , seals , and autograp hs—Wide and extensive -a ^ this range . may appear , and it includes the scholar , the man of taste the antiquarian , and the herald , his inquiries have not rested in the closet of the speculatist ; he has been equally anxious that the whole it n 1 T ltted ' ? th praCtical experience of the mechanician ! be p onounced upon by the paper-maker , & c . as well as the author e' ee f adn
ant S , t 7 ht " uTT ° , 8 " them in a "y view , a « d unde n Li ! M that °° ul ( J . thrown upon them : and he has in consequence the satisfaction of announcing to the public , that , as far as he has been able to collect the sentiments of the several classes of persons above referred to , they have unanimousl y testified in favou ^^ ZT e T { " , d dedared that > w ,, ere there was such a mass of evidence internal and external it amidst such
, , was impossible , various sources of detection , for the art of imitation to have hazarded so much without betraying itself ; and , consequentl y , that f / S papers can be no other than the production of SHAKSPEARE himself . " * The contents of the volume are , Fac Similies ' of Shakspeare '
s Autographs Queen Elizabeth ' s Letter . ' Extracts from Miscellaneous Papers Note of Hand . f • Letter to Anna Iiatherrewaye . Verses to the same .