The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
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Page xi
... perhaps be urged , that to this firft folio we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or feventeen of our author's plays . True : but may not our want of yet earlier and lefs corrupted editions of these very dramas be folely ...
... perhaps be urged , that to this firft folio we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or feventeen of our author's plays . True : but may not our want of yet earlier and lefs corrupted editions of these very dramas be folely ...
Page xv
... perhaps , that between the intereft of his readers and his editors a material difference fhould fubfift . The former wish to meet with as few difficulties as poffible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because they afford ...
... perhaps , that between the intereft of his readers and his editors a material difference fhould fubfift . The former wish to meet with as few difficulties as poffible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because they afford ...
Page xix
... perhaps a reluctance or inability to decide be- tween contradi & tory fentiments , have alfo occafioned the appearance of more annotations than were absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requifite that our author , like a Dauphin ...
... perhaps a reluctance or inability to decide be- tween contradi & tory fentiments , have alfo occafioned the appearance of more annotations than were absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requifite that our author , like a Dauphin ...
Page xxii
... perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have obferved its defects , and corrected many of them in its margin , from early manuscripts ...
... perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have obferved its defects , and corrected many of them in its margin , from early manuscripts ...
Page xxiii
... ing as a phantom ; we mean the Editor of the second folio ; for perhaps no such literary agent as an editor of a poetical work unaccompanied by comments , was at that period to be found . This office b 4 ADVERTISEMENT . xxiii.
... ing as a phantom ; we mean the Editor of the second folio ; for perhaps no such literary agent as an editor of a poetical work unaccompanied by comments , was at that period to be found . This office b 4 ADVERTISEMENT . xxiii.
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