The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... quarto paper , so as to suit the best editions of the plays of Shakspeare . Price of the pair to Subscribers 7s . 6d . No Proofs will be taken off . Non - subscribers 10s . 6d . The money to be paid at the time of subscribing , or at ...
... quarto paper , so as to suit the best editions of the plays of Shakspeare . Price of the pair to Subscribers 7s . 6d . No Proofs will be taken off . Non - subscribers 10s . 6d . The money to be paid at the time of subscribing , or at ...
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... quarto . ' But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumstance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he afterwards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a genuine representation , how happened it that ...
... quarto . ' But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumstance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he afterwards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a genuine representation , how happened it that ...
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... quartos of Macbeth , An- tony and Cleopatra , All's well that ends well , & c . been sent into the world , from how many corruptions might the text of all these dramas have been secured ! common sense and the laws of the metre , we 34 ...
... quartos of Macbeth , An- tony and Cleopatra , All's well that ends well , & c . been sent into the world , from how many corruptions might the text of all these dramas have been secured ! common sense and the laws of the metre , we 34 ...
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... quarto , or their suc- cessors , the editors of the first 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 ...
... quarto , or their suc- cessors , the editors of the first 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 ...
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... quartos and 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 ...
... quartos and 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 ...
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