Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and SteevensJ. Wright of Lackington, Allen & Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; F. and C. Rivington; W. J. and J. Richardson; Cuthell and Martin; T. Egerton; R. Faulder; Vernor and Hood; J. Carpenter; R. H. Evans; S. Bagster; and J. Asperne, 1805 |
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... sure , can claim no privilege to alter . Unquestionably , where the text of an author has come attested to the world , as his own unadulterated performance , any attempts at emen- dation are unwarrantable ; and , I have always viewed ...
... sure , can claim no privilege to alter . Unquestionably , where the text of an author has come attested to the world , as his own unadulterated performance , any attempts at emen- dation are unwarrantable ; and , I have always viewed ...
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... here at home ; " not stays . 44. " Where shou'd this music be ? i'the air , or the earth ? " It sounds no more ; and sure it waits upon " Some God of the island . " Milton seems to have been thinking of this passage in 28 TEMPEST .
... here at home ; " not stays . 44. " Where shou'd this music be ? i'the air , or the earth ? " It sounds no more ; and sure it waits upon " Some God of the island . " Milton seems to have been thinking of this passage in 28 TEMPEST .
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... Sure something holy lodges in that breast , " & c . 57 . ACT II . SCENE I. " You have taken it wiselier than I meant . " An adverb declined into the comparative ad- jective ; as , again , in A Midsummer Night's Dream : And earthlier ...
... Sure something holy lodges in that breast , " & c . 57 . ACT II . SCENE I. " You have taken it wiselier than I meant . " An adverb declined into the comparative ad- jective ; as , again , in A Midsummer Night's Dream : And earthlier ...
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... sure , methought , her eyes had lost her tongue . " Sure , as Mr. Malone observes , which is not in the old copy , ( but was added afterwards to fill up the measure , ) is unlike any word that Shakspeare would have used here ...
... sure , methought , her eyes had lost her tongue . " Sure , as Mr. Malone observes , which is not in the old copy , ( but was added afterwards to fill up the measure , ) is unlike any word that Shakspeare would have used here ...
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... sure than you must expect , & c . Plain sense , in many of these scenes , must yield to the charm of a jingle . 7. " How much better is it to weep at joy , than to joy at weeping ? " This is a very lame antithesis ; for we must change ...
... sure than you must expect , & c . Plain sense , in many of these scenes , must yield to the charm of a jingle . 7. " How much better is it to weep at joy , than to joy at weeping ? " This is a very lame antithesis ; for we must change ...
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