Remarks, Critical Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakespeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Edited by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth : Dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq, Volume 2AMS Press, 1976 |
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Page 250
... syllables , indeed , if we count them , but no verse . The words of an advertise- ment in a newspaper might as well be reckoned by the syllables , and inserted , with an exact ten to each line , as heroic verse . Again : 50. " You may ...
... syllables , indeed , if we count them , but no verse . The words of an advertise- ment in a newspaper might as well be reckoned by the syllables , and inserted , with an exact ten to each line , as heroic verse . Again : 50. " You may ...
Page 267
... syllable of revenge , we cannot read this line metrically , Perhaps it was " Not to revenge is valour , but to bear ... syllables only , unless we accentuate " quiétly . " I would transpose : " And let the foes cut quietly their throats ...
... syllable of revenge , we cannot read this line metrically , Perhaps it was " Not to revenge is valour , but to bear ... syllables only , unless we accentuate " quiétly . " I would transpose : " And let the foes cut quietly their throats ...
Page 268
... syllable ; for I cannot recog- nize , with Mr. Steevens , five syllables in remem- brances : " Call me to your remembrances , lords . " 3 Sen. " 66 What ? " Banish usury , " That makes the senate ugly . ” I suppose , " That sordid vice ...
... syllable ; for I cannot recog- nize , with Mr. Steevens , five syllables in remem- brances : " Call me to your remembrances , lords . " 3 Sen. " 66 What ? " Banish usury , " That makes the senate ugly . ” I suppose , " That sordid vice ...
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66 SCENE Antony Apemantus appears believe beseech better Brutus CAPEL LOFFT Cassio Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death Desd Desdemona disorder do't dost doth ejected ellipsis emendation Emil expression eyes fair false fear folio give Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven hemistic Henry honour hypermeter Iago Iago's interpolation Johnson Juliet Julius Cæsar Kent king King Lear knave Lear LORD CHEDWORTH lost Macbeth madam Malone Mark Antony meaning measure Merchant of Venice metre nature ne'er never occurs omitted Othello passage perhaps play poet Posthumus pray PRINCE OF TYRE propose quarto reads queen regulate remark Romeo says SCENE II seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose swear syllable thee thing thou thought Timon tion useless verb verse villain virtue wanting Warburton's words