Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... play in this respect is most notori- ous ; who , in order to make way for his emendations , will often drop the only , and true conftruction : the reader is mistaken if he thinks this done through ignorance . I will inftance in a ...
... play in this respect is most notori- ous ; who , in order to make way for his emendations , will often drop the only , and true conftruction : the reader is mistaken if he thinks this done through ignorance . I will inftance in a ...
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... plays , accoutred with a long coat , a cap with a pair of afs's ears , and a dagger of lath . Shakespeare alludes to his ... play call'd . the B 4 Devil's Who is there but will allow greater liberty for altering Sect . I. on SHAKESPEARE .
... plays , accoutred with a long coat , a cap with a pair of afs's ears , and a dagger of lath . Shakespeare alludes to his ... play call'd . the B 4 Devil's Who is there but will allow greater liberty for altering Sect . I. on SHAKESPEARE .
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... play will make the follow- ing obfervations more plain , A & t . I. Pug afks the Devil " to lend him a Vice . " Satan . What Vice ? " What kind wouldst thou have it of ? " Pug . Why , any Fraud , Or Covetousness , or Lady Vanity , " Or ...
... play will make the follow- ing obfervations more plain , A & t . I. Pug afks the Devil " to lend him a Vice . " Satan . What Vice ? " What kind wouldst thou have it of ? " Pug . Why , any Fraud , Or Covetousness , or Lady Vanity , " Or ...
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... play ; every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger . Now Hamlet , having been inftructed by his father's ghoft , is refolved to break the fubject of the difcourfe to none but Horatio ; and to all others his intention is to appear ...
... play ; every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger . Now Hamlet , having been inftructed by his father's ghoft , is refolved to break the fubject of the difcourfe to none but Horatio ; and to all others his intention is to appear ...
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... . a brutish Vice's image : the Vice Gluttony ; not without fome allufion to the VICE of the old plays . Cr VICE may be in the abstract , as in Martial , Now yet , Gentlemen , ' tis death and destruction to IO Book I. Critical Obfervations.
... . a brutish Vice's image : the Vice Gluttony ; not without fome allufion to the VICE of the old plays . Cr VICE may be in the abstract , as in Martial , Now yet , Gentlemen , ' tis death and destruction to IO Book I. Critical Obfervations.
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