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YOUNDED ON

THE TRAGEDIES

OF

HAXSPEARE, MISSINGER,. SHIRLEY, ROWI, HOAPBT,

LILLO,, AND MOORE,

HEILE, PARQUHARE, CUMBERLAND, BORXHITALY,

GOLDSMITI, ND MRS. COWLEX.

BY MISS, MACAULEY,

Good unexpected-evil unforeseen
Appear by turns, a Fortune shifts the scene.
Bome, raised aloft, come tumbliog down amaid 1
domo fall so hard they bound and rise again.

Lansdown

EXETER, N. H.

ROBINSON AND TOW L I.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

650543

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
R

1913

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CONTEXTS.

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DUKE OF MILAN

THE INCONSTANT

THE GOOD-NATURED MAN

INTRODUCTION TO SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS

KING JOHN

THE QUAKER

EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE

THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM

WINTER'S TALE

GEORGE BARNWELL

THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS

KING RICHARD II. -

THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER

THE BROTHERS

LADY JANE GREY

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE:

CORIOLANUS

THE WAY TO KEEP HIM

THE GAMESTER

THE HYPOCRITE

JULIUS CÆSAR

CONCLUSION