Plays of Shakespeare: Selected and Prepared for Use in SchoolsGinn, Heath & Company, 1882 - English drama |
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... old copies , and such , no doubt , was the Poet's writing ; though some editors have changed it to earthly happier ... older text is merely an instance of give followed by two objectives . For disobedience to your father's will , Or else ...
... old copies , and such , no doubt , was the Poet's writing ; though some editors have changed it to earthly happier ... older text is merely an instance of give followed by two objectives . For disobedience to your father's will , Or else ...
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... old copies read , " My ear should catch your voice " ; which cannot possibly be right . The read- ing in the text was proposed by Mr. Lettsom , who justifies the change thus : " As the passage stands at present , Helena wishes her ear ...
... old copies read , " My ear should catch your voice " ; which cannot possibly be right . The read- ing in the text was proposed by Mr. Lettsom , who justifies the change thus : " As the passage stands at present , Helena wishes her ear ...
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... old copies all have " want their winter here ; " which cannot possibly be right , because the very complaint is , that they are having Winter out of season , and when they want Summer . Cheer is Theobald's correc- tion ; and , though ...
... old copies all have " want their winter here ; " which cannot possibly be right , because the very complaint is , that they are having Winter out of season , and when they want Summer . Cheer is Theobald's correc- tion ; and , though ...
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... old copies read , " The one I'll stay , the other stayeth me . ” The best editors agree in changing stay to slay . 27 Wood is an old word for frantic , mad . 28 " There is now a dayes a kind of adamant which draweth unto it fleshe , and ...
... old copies read , " The one I'll stay , the other stayeth me . ” The best editors agree in changing stay to slay . 27 Wood is an old word for frantic , mad . 28 " There is now a dayes a kind of adamant which draweth unto it fleshe , and ...
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... old copies have " plunge in the deep . " Knee - deep was proposed by Coleridge , and is approved by Walker , and adopted by Dyce . A very happy emendation . The old copies have dead instead of dread . What sense dead should have there I ...
... old copies have " plunge in the deep . " Knee - deep was proposed by Coleridge , and is approved by Walker , and adopted by Dyce . A very happy emendation . The old copies have dead instead of dread . What sense dead should have there I ...
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