Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier ... |
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... instances the sense of the poet has thus been elucidated in a way that has not been anticipated ' . With regard to changes of a different and more important character , where letters are added or expunged , where words are supplied or ...
... instances the sense of the poet has thus been elucidated in a way that has not been anticipated ' . With regard to changes of a different and more important character , where letters are added or expunged , where words are supplied or ...
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... instances , but they will occur in the course of the volume . " There is , I think , but one printed note of aside in the whole of the six - and - thirty plays ; but in manuscript the utmost care is taken so to mark all speeches ...
... instances , but they will occur in the course of the volume . " There is , I think , but one printed note of aside in the whole of the six - and - thirty plays ; but in manuscript the utmost care is taken so to mark all speeches ...
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... instance from " The Taming of the Shrew , " Act I. Scene I. , where Lucentio , arriving in Padua , to read 1 Some expressions and lines of an irreligious or indelicate character are also struck out , evincing , perhaps , the advance of ...
... instance from " The Taming of the Shrew , " Act I. Scene I. , where Lucentio , arriving in Padua , to read 1 Some expressions and lines of an irreligious or indelicate character are also struck out , evincing , perhaps , the advance of ...
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... instance of the sort so remarkable , that I cannot refuse to notice it here . It regards the expression " a woollen bagpipe , " in " The Merchant of Venice , " Act IV . Scene I .; and it must appear strange that " woolless " in one play ...
... instance of the sort so remarkable , that I cannot refuse to notice it here . It regards the expression " a woollen bagpipe , " in " The Merchant of Venice , " Act IV . Scene I .; and it must appear strange that " woolless " in one play ...
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... instances , I take them from many , almost at random , for the real difficulty is selection . When Henry VIII . ( Act III ... instance seems indisputable ; but we meet with a more striking proof of the same kind in " King Lear " ( Act IV ...
... instances , I take them from many , almost at random , for the real difficulty is selection . When Henry VIII . ( Act III ... instance seems indisputable ; but we meet with a more striking proof of the same kind in " King Lear " ( Act IV ...
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