The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
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Page 60
... , and fometimes in Sici- ly , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his historical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and diftinct places 60 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
... , and fometimes in Sici- ly , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his historical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and diftinct places 60 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
Page 129
... history in any language : fo could not be Shakspeare's . I shall now lay before the reader fome of those almoft innumerable errors , which haye rifen from one fource , the ignorance of the players , both as his actors , and as his ...
... history in any language : fo could not be Shakspeare's . I shall now lay before the reader fome of those almoft innumerable errors , which haye rifen from one fource , the ignorance of the players , both as his actors , and as his ...
Page 162
... history . Wherever the author's fenfe is clear and dif coverable , ( though perchance , low and trivial , ) I have not by any innovation tampered with his text , out of an oftentation of endeavouring to make him fpeak better than the ...
... history . Wherever the author's fenfe is clear and dif coverable , ( though perchance , low and trivial , ) I have not by any innovation tampered with his text , out of an oftentation of endeavouring to make him fpeak better than the ...
Page 192
... history and chronology of Greek words is the moft SOLID entertainment of a man of letters . I fly then to a higher example , much nearer home , and fill more in point , the famous univer- fity of OXFORD . This illuftrious body which ...
... history and chronology of Greek words is the moft SOLID entertainment of a man of letters . I fly then to a higher example , much nearer home , and fill more in point , the famous univer- fity of OXFORD . This illuftrious body which ...
Page 251
... . Some of these alterations are only the ejection of a word for one that appeared to him more elegant or more intelligible . Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the history DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 251.
... . Some of these alterations are only the ejection of a word for one that appeared to him more elegant or more intelligible . Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the history DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 251.
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