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... altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the corrector , within him- felf , has thought proper to establish . But of this I have fully spoken ; and methinks what I have spoken deferves a ferious notice . ' Twas ...
... altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the corrector , within him- felf , has thought proper to establish . But of this I have fully spoken ; and methinks what I have spoken deferves a ferious notice . ' Twas ...
Page xxxiv
... alteration ; and fuch a note , as is worthy of fuch an alteration.In the other paf- fage , Diana they make to fay , " Since Frenchmen are fo braid , " Marry'EM that will , I'D live and die a maid . " Could not the poets have taught our ...
... alteration ; and fuch a note , as is worthy of fuch an alteration.In the other paf- fage , Diana they make to fay , " Since Frenchmen are fo braid , " Marry'EM that will , I'D live and die a maid . " Could not the poets have taught our ...
Page xxxix
... alter the poet's words ? - This Morris - pike changed into a Maurice - pike , i . e . a pikeman of Prince Maurice's army , puts me in mind of an ex- planation in A Midsummer Night's Dream , A & t II . C 4 " The " The nine - men's morris ...
... alter the poet's words ? - This Morris - pike changed into a Maurice - pike , i . e . a pikeman of Prince Maurice's army , puts me in mind of an ex- planation in A Midsummer Night's Dream , A & t II . C 4 " The " The nine - men's morris ...
Page xli
... altered , and natures is changed into nurtures . ] I am led infenfibly , from my defign of raifing a little innocent mirth in my reader , by the many er- rors I meet in my way . - Let us then return . In the Winter's Tale , Act I ...
... altered , and natures is changed into nurtures . ] I am led infenfibly , from my defign of raifing a little innocent mirth in my reader , by the many er- rors I meet in my way . - Let us then return . In the Winter's Tale , Act I ...
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... might expect a much better , at least a lefs altered edition from Shakespeare's έσ own words , than has yet been published . " Critical O N SHAKESPEARE . T BOOK I. SECT . I. Ixii PREFACE . not been one editor of our poet, but has ...
... might expect a much better , at least a lefs altered edition from Shakespeare's έσ own words , than has yet been published . " Critical O N SHAKESPEARE . T BOOK I. SECT . I. Ixii PREFACE . not been one editor of our poet, but has ...
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