On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 266 pages |
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... question may for brevity's sake be summed up in the ina- dequate phrase incoherence of thought , and a few words may not be wasted in explaining and eluci- dating on what grounds and in what manner it is intended to be employed as an ...
... question may for brevity's sake be summed up in the ina- dequate phrase incoherence of thought , and a few words may not be wasted in explaining and eluci- dating on what grounds and in what manner it is intended to be employed as an ...
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... question is enhanced by an occasional tinge of what may be called pedantry , whether personal or belonging to the age ; a use of terms in an etymological and hence somewhat strained acceptation . An appropriate meaning is perhaps fully ...
... question is enhanced by an occasional tinge of what may be called pedantry , whether personal or belonging to the age ; a use of terms in an etymological and hence somewhat strained acceptation . An appropriate meaning is perhaps fully ...
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... felicity or completeness in fulfilling the three antecedent conditions , when resemblance is not in question . These circumstances themselves admit of degrees , and both may be concerned in the final determi- nation c 3 PRINCIPLES . 21.
... felicity or completeness in fulfilling the three antecedent conditions , when resemblance is not in question . These circumstances themselves admit of degrees , and both may be concerned in the final determi- nation c 3 PRINCIPLES . 21.
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... question whether or not they are a modern fabri- cation becomes of no critical importance ; the only points to be established in each case are , whether any fault exists in the received text , and if a fault is shown to exist , whether ...
... question whether or not they are a modern fabri- cation becomes of no critical importance ; the only points to be established in each case are , whether any fault exists in the received text , and if a fault is shown to exist , whether ...
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... question rank in value just the same , whether they are due to the seventeenth century or to our own age . New or old , forged or genuine , they are what they are , and must stand or fall by their own intrinsic deserts , without any ...
... question rank in value just the same , whether they are due to the seventeenth century or to our own age . New or old , forged or genuine , they are what they are , and must stand or fall by their own intrinsic deserts , without any ...
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