The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page vii
... these remarks are omitted because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who publishes a series of comments unattended by the text of his author , is apt to ...
... these remarks are omitted because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by their own immoderate length ; for he who publishes a series of comments unattended by the text of his author , is apt to ...
Page xi
... these plays , whilft the other commen tators , I will not except even Steevens himself , have too generally confined their obfervation and ingenuity to thofe litigated paffages , which have been handed down to them by former editors ...
... these plays , whilft the other commen tators , I will not except even Steevens himself , have too generally confined their obfervation and ingenuity to thofe litigated paffages , which have been handed down to them by former editors ...
Page xii
... these ob- fervations will be generally approved of ; fome of them , I confefs , are not thoroughly fatisfactory even to myfelf , and are hazarded , rather than relied on : -But there are others which I offer with fome degree of ...
... these ob- fervations will be generally approved of ; fome of them , I confefs , are not thoroughly fatisfactory even to myfelf , and are hazarded , rather than relied on : -But there are others which I offer with fome degree of ...
Page xx
... these four verses : " Ten in the hundred lies here ingrav'd ; " ' Tis a hundred to ten his foul is not fav'd : " If any man afk , Who lies in this tomb ? " Oh ! ho ! quoth the devil , ' tis my John - a - Combe . " But the fharpness of ...
... these four verses : " Ten in the hundred lies here ingrav'd ; " ' Tis a hundred to ten his foul is not fav'd : " If any man afk , Who lies in this tomb ? " Oh ! ho ! quoth the devil , ' tis my John - a - Combe . " But the fharpness of ...
Page xxvi
... these plays I fhall have occa- fion to take notice , among the tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greateft part of these by those rules which are established by Ariftotle , and taken from the model of the ...
... these plays I fhall have occa- fion to take notice , among the tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greateft part of these by those rules which are established by Ariftotle , and taken from the model of the ...
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