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Page vii
... editor . But what fhall we fay of the judicious remark fubjoined ? I was told , formerly , that Me- rops and Clymene were husband and wife ; and that if Phaeton was MEROP'S SON be was a legitimate off - spring , and no BASTARD . Now the ...
... editor . But what fhall we fay of the judicious remark fubjoined ? I was told , formerly , that Me- rops and Clymene were husband and wife ; and that if Phaeton was MEROP'S SON be was a legitimate off - spring , and no BASTARD . Now the ...
Page xvi
... in the English language and English authors may be deemed fufficient . — There is an English author , which was much studied by Shakespeare , Į Shakespeare , but very fuperficially by Shakespeare's editors , now xvi PREFACE .
... in the English language and English authors may be deemed fufficient . — There is an English author , which was much studied by Shakespeare , Į Shakespeare , but very fuperficially by Shakespeare's editors , now xvi PREFACE .
Page xvii
John Upton. Shakespeare , but very fuperficially by Shakespeare's editors , now lying before me . ' Tis well known that the Coke's Tale of Gamelyn was the original of the play called As you Like it . A Midfum- mer's Night's Dream bad its ...
John Upton. Shakespeare , but very fuperficially by Shakespeare's editors , now lying before me . ' Tis well known that the Coke's Tale of Gamelyn was the original of the play called As you Like it . A Midfum- mer's Night's Dream bad its ...
Page xxxi
... editor as wan- tonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to.— Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a ...
... editor as wan- tonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to.— Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a ...
Page xxxiii
... editor is fcarce to be numbered among ' the great men , who never thought themselves better employed than in cultivating their own country idiom . VIII . Never were printed , I believe , in any one book emendations , ( as they are ...
... editor is fcarce to be numbered among ' the great men , who never thought themselves better employed than in cultivating their own country idiom . VIII . Never were printed , I believe , in any one book emendations , ( as they are ...
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