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Page xii
... English and German editors . From all notes I have omitted references simply to the variæ lec- tiones of the old copies , except where they were necessary to explain the substance of the note . I have also omitted the personalities of ...
... English and German editors . From all notes I have omitted references simply to the variæ lec- tiones of the old copies , except where they were necessary to explain the substance of the note . I have also omitted the personalities of ...
Page xiii
... English editors . Lessing revealed Shakespeare to Germans , but not to Englishmen . Rowe , Pope , Theobald , Hanmer , Warburton , and Johnson had supplied with their editions the English demand for the works of him whose supremacy all ...
... English editors . Lessing revealed Shakespeare to Germans , but not to Englishmen . Rowe , Pope , Theobald , Hanmer , Warburton , and Johnson had supplied with their editions the English demand for the works of him whose supremacy all ...
Page xiv
... English commentaries ' on Shakespeare ; here and there by a collation of the old copies we ' may happily settle some doubtful reading , but it is a perilous game ' not to confess , under all circumstances , frankly and modestly , that ...
... English commentaries ' on Shakespeare ; here and there by a collation of the old copies we ' may happily settle some doubtful reading , but it is a perilous game ' not to confess , under all circumstances , frankly and modestly , that ...
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... English . It must be borne in mind that references to this tragedy alone , and not to Shakespeare in general , would be appropriate in this volume . It has given me especial pleasure to lay before the English reader the extracts from ...
... English . It must be borne in mind that references to this tragedy alone , and not to Shakespeare in general , would be appropriate in this volume . It has given me especial pleasure to lay before the English reader the extracts from ...
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... English of Shakespeare ( Second Edition ) LORD CAMPBELL : The Legal Acquirements of Shakespeare consid- ered WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER : A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare . NICHOLS : Notes on Shakespeare 1857 .. 1859 ...
... English of Shakespeare ( Second Edition ) LORD CAMPBELL : The Legal Acquirements of Shakespeare consid- ered WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER : A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare . NICHOLS : Notes on Shakespeare 1857 .. 1859 ...
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