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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... fhall we find an equal conformity in his features ? Few objects indeed are occafionally more difficult to feize , than the flender traits that mark the character of a face ; and the poor remains of their avowed original . Of the drapery.
... fhall we find an equal conformity in his features ? Few objects indeed are occafionally more difficult to feize , than the flender traits that mark the character of a face ; and the poor remains of their avowed original . Of the drapery.
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... fhall offer to point out , among the numerous prints of Shakspeare , any one that is more like him than the reft ? 5 The play of Pericles has been added to this col- lection , by the advice of Dr. Farmer . To make room for it , Titus ...
... fhall offer to point out , among the numerous prints of Shakspeare , any one that is more like him than the reft ? 5 The play of Pericles has been added to this col- lection , by the advice of Dr. Farmer . To make room for it , Titus ...
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... fhall not complain that its point is " unbated and enve- nomed ; " for the conductors of this undertaking do not scruple thus openly to express their wishes that it may have merit enough to provoke a revision from the acknowledged ...
... fhall not complain that its point is " unbated and enve- nomed ; " for the conductors of this undertaking do not scruple thus openly to express their wishes that it may have merit enough to provoke a revision from the acknowledged ...
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... fhall entreat our opponents to exchange that phrafe for another more germane , " and fay inftead of it , that we have deviated from the text of the publifhers of fingle plays in quarto , or their fucceffors , the edi- tors of the firft ...
... fhall entreat our opponents to exchange that phrafe for another more germane , " and fay inftead of it , that we have deviated from the text of the publifhers of fingle plays in quarto , or their fucceffors , the edi- tors of the firft ...
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... fhall not fhrink from controverfy with those who maintain a different opinion , and refuse to acquiefce in modern sugges- tions if oppofed to the authority of quartos and folios , configned to us by a fet of people who were wholly ...
... fhall not fhrink from controverfy with those who maintain a different opinion , and refuse to acquiefce in modern sugges- tions if oppofed to the authority of quartos and folios , configned to us by a fet of people who were wholly ...
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