Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then …

Samuel Johnson
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new. ✨ William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona, p.220
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