The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... muft add , that on very vague and dubious au- thority this head has hitherto been received as a ge- nuine portrait of our author , who probably left be- hind him no fuch memorial of his face . As he was careless of the future ftate of ...
... muft add , that on very vague and dubious au- thority this head has hitherto been received as a ge- nuine portrait of our author , who probably left be- hind him no fuch memorial of his face . As he was careless of the future ftate of ...
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... muft give way , and no reader will patiently endure to fee " Alcides beaten by his page . " - Inferior volat umbra deo.- Mr. M. Mason will alfo forgive us if we add , that a small number of his propofed amendments are " " Tis fuppreffed ...
... muft give way , and no reader will patiently endure to fee " Alcides beaten by his page . " - Inferior volat umbra deo.- Mr. M. Mason will alfo forgive us if we add , that a small number of his propofed amendments are " " Tis fuppreffed ...
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... muft remain in an unfettled ftate , and float in obedience to every gale of con- tradictory criticifm . - Could a perfect and decifive edition of the following fcenes be produced , it were 8 ( VOL . I. nec infiabili famâ fuperabere Delo ...
... muft remain in an unfettled ftate , and float in obedience to every gale of con- tradictory criticifm . - Could a perfect and decifive edition of the following fcenes be produced , it were 8 ( VOL . I. nec infiabili famâ fuperabere Delo ...
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... muft remain unexpelled . To other defects of our late editions may be sub- joined , as not the leaft notorious , an exuberance of comment . Our fituation has not unaptly resembled that of the fray in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet ...
... muft remain unexpelled . To other defects of our late editions may be sub- joined , as not the leaft notorious , an exuberance of comment . Our fituation has not unaptly resembled that of the fray in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet ...
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... muft awhile folicit the reader's attention . The following conjectural account of the publica- tion of this fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it ...
... muft awhile folicit the reader's attention . The following conjectural account of the publica- tion of this fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it ...
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