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His sharp features being much pinched and nipped by long waiting in the cold, and his straggling red whiskers and frowzy hair being more than usually dishevelled from the same cause, he certainly looked rather unwholesome and uncomfortable than Shakspearian or Miltonic.
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Shakspearian readings at Windsor to “the most illustrious audience in the realm.”
Mens Wives 2006
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London wine merchant, probably from Shakspearian associations, and my belief is that what he sold me under that name was an Italian wine of some sort, bearing a good deal of resemblance to the _vino panto_, of which
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She was his partner in writing the Shakspearian tales, and he always affirmed that hers were better done than his own.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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It is not necessary to discuss whether vinegar, verjuice, or wormwood be the preferable translation of the Shakspearian word; for before either of them can be received, the advocate is bound to {67} accommodate his exposition to Shakspeare's sentence, and to "get over the _drink up_," which still stands in his way as it did in that of Malone.
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Shakspearian burlesques were no novelty to the town.
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Here is a passage of interest to the student of Shakspearian localities, and bearing on a matter in dispute from the days of Malone and Chalmers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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I am not aware that any Shakspearian reader of the
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Query, Has this reading been adopted by our skilled Shakspearian critics?
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The _form_ of this play is ostensibly Shakspearian; but it appears to us to resemble less the works of Shakspeare himself, than some of the more successful imitations of the great dramatist's manner -- as, for instance, some parts of the Wallenstein.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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