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 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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Page 35
... reason therefore to say , that because all cannot be retrieved , all ought to be left desperate ? We should show very little honesty , or wisdom , to play the tyrants with an author's text ; to raze , alter , innovate , and overturn ...
... reason therefore to say , that because all cannot be retrieved , all ought to be left desperate ? We should show very little honesty , or wisdom , to play the tyrants with an author's text ; to raze , alter , innovate , and overturn ...
Page 56
... reason of things . The great Saint Chrysostom , a name consecrated to im- mortality by his virtue and eloquence , is known to have been so fond of Aristophanes , as to wake with him at his studies , and to sleep with him under his ...
... reason of things . The great Saint Chrysostom , a name consecrated to im- mortality by his virtue and eloquence , is known to have been so fond of Aristophanes , as to wake with him at his studies , and to sleep with him under his ...
Page 223
... reason's light . " instead of which , we find in the second folio , " And that hath dazzled so my reason's light . " The words neither , rather , & c . are frequently used by Shakspeare as words of one syllable . So , in King Henry VI ...
... reason's light . " instead of which , we find in the second folio , " And that hath dazzled so my reason's light . " The words neither , rather , & c . are frequently used by Shakspeare as words of one syllable . So , in King Henry VI ...
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