The Plays of William Shakspeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, Volume 1AMS Press, 1900 |
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Page i
... designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made fromit ; buta regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they are all unlike ...
... designed for , it might have been left , as it now appears , unfinished . Various copies and plates , however , are faid at different times to have been made fromit ; buta regard for truth obliges us to confefs that they are all unlike ...
Page ix
... designed to introduce them , should accompany their second appearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needless , as their own merit is fure to rank their author among the most diligent and sagacious of our celebrated Poet's ...
... designed to introduce them , should accompany their second appearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needless , as their own merit is fure to rank their author among the most diligent and sagacious of our celebrated Poet's ...
Page xii
... designed to publish for their own emolument , they re- doubled their solicitude to withhold the reft , and were but too fuccess- ful in their precaution . " Thank fortune ( says the original putter- forth of Troilus and Greffida ) for ...
... designed to publish for their own emolument , they re- doubled their solicitude to withhold the reft , and were but too fuccess- ful in their precaution . " Thank fortune ( says the original putter- forth of Troilus and Greffida ) for ...
Page 24
... designed to convey the character of fuch a being to posterity . - I hope I may he excused for this attempt to vin- dicate Shakspeare from the imputation of having poifoned the hour of confidence and festivity , by producing the feverest ...
... designed to convey the character of fuch a being to posterity . - I hope I may he excused for this attempt to vin- dicate Shakspeare from the imputation of having poifoned the hour of confidence and festivity , by producing the feverest ...
Page 55
... design , which is to cure Ford of his un- reasonable jealousy , is extremely well conducted . In Twelfth - Night there is something fingularly ri- diculous and pleasant in the fantastical steward Malvolio . The parafite and the vain ...
... design , which is to cure Ford of his un- reasonable jealousy , is extremely well conducted . In Twelfth - Night there is something fingularly ri- diculous and pleasant in the fantastical steward Malvolio . The parafite and the vain ...
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