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Page vi
... reading . It is hardly possible to over - estimate the critical and textual value of such an edition . The respect , however , wherein the plan of the Cambridge Edition is open to improvement - and I say it with deference vi PREFACE .
... reading . It is hardly possible to over - estimate the critical and textual value of such an edition . The respect , however , wherein the plan of the Cambridge Edition is open to improvement - and I say it with deference vi PREFACE .
Page vii
... readings of the old editions , it omits to note the adoption or rejection of them by the various editors , whereby an important element in estimating these readings is wanting ; however uncouth a reading may seem at first sight , it ...
... readings of the old editions , it omits to note the adoption or rejection of them by the various editors , whereby an important element in estimating these readings is wanting ; however uncouth a reading may seem at first sight , it ...
Page viii
... reading of a majority of the ablest editors , but not always : in some cases I have followed only one editor ; and ... reading , the sign ' & c . , ' is still made to do duty for the others that follow another reading . As many of the ...
... reading of a majority of the ablest editors , but not always : in some cases I have followed only one editor ; and ... reading , the sign ' & c . , ' is still made to do duty for the others that follow another reading . As many of the ...
Page ix
... readings have been noted as followed by certain editors , all the rest of the editors adopt the reading of the Variorum , Exceptions are placed in I have used the abbreviation Var . et cet . ' parentheses ; e . g . , I , v , 19 , ' You ...
... readings have been noted as followed by certain editors , all the rest of the editors adopt the reading of the Variorum , Exceptions are placed in I have used the abbreviation Var . et cet . ' parentheses ; e . g . , I , v , 19 , ' You ...
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... reading in them at second hand , except in the case of the Fifth Quarto , of which I have only an im- perfect copy , lacking about seventy lines at the end of the first Act , and about a hundred and fifty at the end of the fifth ...
... reading in them at second hand , except in the case of the Fifth Quarto , of which I have only an im- perfect copy , lacking about seventy lines at the end of the first Act , and about a hundred and fifty at the end of the fifth ...
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