The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... Hamlet , and in Othello . The length of this prefatory advertisement has precluded their exemplification , which was here meant to have been given . - We wish , however , to impress the foregoing circumstance on the memory of the ...
... Hamlet , and in Othello . The length of this prefatory advertisement has precluded their exemplification , which was here meant to have been given . - We wish , however , to impress the foregoing circumstance on the memory of the ...
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... Hamlet has observed , we are contending 66 for a plot " Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause . " Indulgence to the remarks of others , as well as partiality to our own ; an ambition in each little Hercules to set up pillars , ascer ...
... Hamlet has observed , we are contending 66 for a plot " Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause . " Indulgence to the remarks of others , as well as partiality to our own ; an ambition in each little Hercules to set up pillars , ascer ...
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... Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he wrote ; it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to see and know what was ...
... Hamlet . I should have been much more pleased , to have learned from cer- tain authority , which was the first play he wrote ; it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to see and know what was ...
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... Hamlet enlarged to almost as much again as at first , and many others . " Surely this is a very strange kind of argument . In the first place this was not a report , ( unless by that word we are to under- stand relation ) but a positive ...
... Hamlet enlarged to almost as much again as at first , and many others . " Surely this is a very strange kind of argument . In the first place this was not a report , ( unless by that word we are to under- stand relation ) but a positive ...
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... Hamlet in the first edition , ( now extant ) that of 1604 , is said to be " enlarged to almost as much again as it was , according to the true and perfect copy . " What is to be collected from this , but that there was a former ...
... Hamlet in the first edition , ( now extant ) that of 1604 , is said to be " enlarged to almost as much again as it was , according to the true and perfect copy . " What is to be collected from this , but that there was a former ...
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