The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesJ. Nichols and son, 1813 |
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... not improbable that Ben Jonson furnished the Dedi- cation and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Com- mendatory Verses prefixed to it . " The figure , that thou here seest put , MR . RICHARDSON'S PROPOSALS . 11.
... not improbable that Ben Jonson furnished the Dedi- cation and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Com- mendatory Verses prefixed to it . " The figure , that thou here seest put , MR . RICHARDSON'S PROPOSALS . 11.
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... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abominable an imitation of humanity " deserve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the Poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reversed copy by Marshall from its predecessor , with a ...
... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abominable an imitation of humanity " deserve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the Poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reversed copy by Marshall from its predecessor , with a ...
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... folio.1 In plainer terms , that the vitiations of a careless theatre were seconded by those of as ignorant a press . The integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the innocence of females nursed in a camp ...
... folio.1 In plainer terms , that the vitiations of a careless theatre were seconded by those of as ignorant a press . The integrity of dramas thus prepared for the world , is just on a level with the innocence of females nursed in a camp ...
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... folio ; that we have sometimes followed the suggestions of a Warbur- ton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in pre- ference to the decisions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwithstanding their choice of readings might have been ...
... folio ; that we have sometimes followed the suggestions of a Warbur- ton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in pre- ference to the decisions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwithstanding their choice of readings might have been ...
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... folios , consigned to us by a set of people who were wholly uninstructed in the common forms of style , orthography , and punc- tuation . We do not therefore hesitate to affirm , that a blind fidelity to the eldest printed copies , is ...
... folios , consigned to us by a set of people who were wholly uninstructed in the common forms of style , orthography , and punc- tuation . We do not therefore hesitate to affirm , that a blind fidelity to the eldest printed copies , is ...
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