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Page vii
... should have made matter for triumph . Some errors are owing to haft and carelesness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increafing upon me , A 4 fuck ...
... should have made matter for triumph . Some errors are owing to haft and carelesness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increafing upon me , A 4 fuck ...
Page viii
... should make . But the reader is mistaken if he thinks that ei- ther in this preface , or in the following work the hundredth part of our critics errors are corrected . No : I have given the reader his proper cue , and to perfue it ...
... should make . But the reader is mistaken if he thinks that ei- ther in this preface , or in the following work the hundredth part of our critics errors are corrected . No : I have given the reader his proper cue , and to perfue it ...
Page xvii
... should be belped thus , < 6 " I'll speak a prophecy OR TWO ERE I go . " Mr. W. I am fure our Critic has not helped the measure.- But is not OR ERE I GO English ? In the Tempest , [ A & . I. Sc . 2. p . 6. Mr. W's edition : ] Thus I find ...
... should be belped thus , < 6 " I'll speak a prophecy OR TWO ERE I go . " Mr. W. I am fure our Critic has not helped the measure.- But is not OR ERE I GO English ? In the Tempest , [ A & . I. Sc . 2. p . 6. Mr. W's edition : ] Thus I find ...
Page xx
... should read , BOLD - BEARING Oaths . i . e . out - facing . " Mr.W. But a BOLD - BEATING oath is a bold impudent roufing oath the metaphor is taken from the old phrafe , to beat the fire : i . e . to rouse and stir it up : from the ...
... should read , BOLD - BEARING Oaths . i . e . out - facing . " Mr.W. But a BOLD - BEATING oath is a bold impudent roufing oath the metaphor is taken from the old phrafe , to beat the fire : i . e . to rouse and stir it up : from the ...
Page xxiii
... should read it thus , 66 66 " CAN'T fuch things be , " And overcome us like a fummer's cloud , " Without our special wonder ? i . e . cannot thefe vifions , without fo much won- " der and amazement , be prefented to the disturbed ...
... should read it thus , 66 66 " CAN'T fuch things be , " And overcome us like a fummer's cloud , " Without our special wonder ? i . e . cannot thefe vifions , without fo much won- " der and amazement , be prefented to the disturbed ...
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