The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1Rwington, 1821 |
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... folio gives this passage with the word well twice repeated , because others may think with myself , that this iteration is na- turally suited to the irritable state of Hamlet's perturbed mind . As I have by no means set down all the ...
... folio gives this passage with the word well twice repeated , because others may think with myself , that this iteration is na- turally suited to the irritable state of Hamlet's perturbed mind . As I have by no means set down all the ...
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... folio or quarto , which by no error of the press could have been substituted for another , but which the commentators have passed over unnoticed , as it should seem , from their not discovering any meaning which it could bear , I have ...
... folio or quarto , which by no error of the press could have been substituted for another , but which the commentators have passed over unnoticed , as it should seem , from their not discovering any meaning which it could bear , I have ...
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... folio and the quarto , which have nothing to recommend them , but are palpably and sometimes ludicrously erroneous : I have done so , in order to show how necessary it is to collate them all , and how ill founded are the assertions- of ...
... folio and the quarto , which have nothing to recommend them , but are palpably and sometimes ludicrously erroneous : I have done so , in order to show how necessary it is to collate them all , and how ill founded are the assertions- of ...
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... folio . Mr. Malone , from a careful examination of those two copies , which enabled him to discover a number of corruptions in the latter edition , evidently as he thought arising from the editor's ignorance of our poet's phraseology ...
... folio . Mr. Malone , from a careful examination of those two copies , which enabled him to discover a number of corruptions in the latter edition , evidently as he thought arising from the editor's ignorance of our poet's phraseology ...
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... folio has been deserted by Mr. Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious investigation that Mr. Plymsell has gone through ; but in a cursory inspection ...
... folio has been deserted by Mr. Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious investigation that Mr. Plymsell has gone through ; but in a cursory inspection ...
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