In the first seat, in robe of various dies
A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
Sat Shakspeare.-In one hand a wand he bore,
For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore;
The other held a globe, which to his will
Obedient turn'd, and own'd a master's fkill:
Things of the nobleft kind his genius drew,
And look'd through nature at a fingle view:
A loose he gave to his unbounded foul,
And taught new lands to rife, new feas to roll;
Call'd into being fcenes unknown before,

And, paffing nature's bounds, was fomething more.

Churchill's Rofciad.

CONTENT S.

VOL. I.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Rowe's Life of Shakspeare, &c.
Anecdotes of Shakspeare from Oldys, &c.

Baptifms, Marriages, &c.

Shakspeare's Coat of Arms.

Shakspeare's Mortgage.

Shakspeare's Will.

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Dedication by Hemings and Condell.

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74

86

89

94

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103

105

107

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349

422

440

447

Entries of Shakspeare's Plays on the Stationers'
Books.

Lift of authentick ancient Editions of Shak-

fpeare's Plays.

Lift of modern Editions.

Lift of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Poems.

Lift of modern ditto.

Lift of altered Plays from Shakspeare.

Lift of detached Pieces of Criticifm on Shak-
fpeare, his Editors, &c.

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Malone's Attempt to afcertain the Order of
Shakspeare's Plays.

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451

452

454

462

472

Malone's Effay on Ford's Pamphlet, &c. 618
Steevens's Remarks on it.

642

VOL. II.

Farmer's Effay on the Learning of Shakspeare.

Colman's Remarks on it.

Catalogue of ancient Tranflations from the

Greek and Roman Clafficks, by Steevens.

Malone's hiftorical Account of the English

Stage.

Steevens's Additions.

Commendatory Verses.

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89

114

*495

495