Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Ms. Corr. in a Copy of the Folio, 1632Whittaker & Company, 1853 - 528 pages |
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Page viii
... letter which a practical printer , whom I have not the pleasure of knowing , did me the favour to write , in order to satisfy me that many of the suggestions for the improvement of Shakespeare's text were warranted by defects of art ...
... letter which a practical printer , whom I have not the pleasure of knowing , did me the favour to write , in order to satisfy me that many of the suggestions for the improvement of Shakespeare's text were warranted by defects of art ...
Page xii
... letters are added or expunged , where words are supplied or struck out , or where lines and sentences , omitted by the early printer , have been inserted , together with all other emendations of a similar kind , it is dif- ficult to ...
... letters are added or expunged , where words are supplied or struck out , or where lines and sentences , omitted by the early printer , have been inserted , together with all other emendations of a similar kind , it is dif- ficult to ...
Page xvi
... letters and typographical trifles of that kind , from their very nature could not have been introduced with rapidity , while many of the errata must have severely tasked the industry of the old corrector " . 6 It ought to be mentioned ...
... letters and typographical trifles of that kind , from their very nature could not have been introduced with rapidity , while many of the errata must have severely tasked the industry of the old corrector " . 6 It ought to be mentioned ...
Page xix
... letter , and with ke near the end of the word , as was then the custom , and the care- less compositor mistook ethickes for " checkes , " and so printed it : " checkes " is converted into ethickes in the hand - writing of the emendator ...
... letter , and with ke near the end of the word , as was then the custom , and the care- less compositor mistook ethickes for " checkes , " and so printed it : " checkes " is converted into ethickes in the hand - writing of the emendator ...
Page xxiii
... letter of love to Edmund and hate to her husband , he ex- claims , as the poet's language has been represented , " O , undistinguish'd space of woman's will ! A plot upon her virtuous husband's life . " The commentators have striven ...
... letter of love to Edmund and hate to her husband , he ex- claims , as the poet's language has been represented , " O , undistinguish'd space of woman's will ! A plot upon her virtuous husband's life . " The commentators have striven ...
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