The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Page 12
... Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . ( The infertion , however , seems to be injudicious . To meet with Macbeth was the final drift of all the Witches in going tơ the heath , and not the particular ...
... Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . ( The infertion , however , seems to be injudicious . To meet with Macbeth was the final drift of all the Witches in going tơ the heath , and not the particular ...
Page 16
... Pope , who introduced the epithet long , to assist the metre , and reads- Doubtful long it ftood , has thereby injured the sense , If the comparison was meant to coincide in all circumstances , the struggle could not be long . I read ...
... Pope , who introduced the epithet long , to assist the metre , and reads- Doubtful long it ftood , has thereby injured the sense , If the comparison was meant to coincide in all circumstances , the struggle could not be long . I read ...
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... Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our author's plays in which he has not used which for who . So , in The Winter's Tale : " -the old fhep ...
... Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our author's plays in which he has not used which for who . So , in The Winter's Tale : " -the old fhep ...
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... Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the fecond folio , is very unlikely to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking ...
... Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the fecond folio , is very unlikely to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking ...
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... POPE . In one of the folio editions the reading is - Anoint thee , in a sense very confiftent with the common account of witches , who are related to perform many supernatural acts , by the means of unguents , and particularly to fly ...
... POPE . In one of the folio editions the reading is - Anoint thee , in a sense very confiftent with the common account of witches , who are related to perform many supernatural acts , by the means of unguents , and particularly to fly ...
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almoſt alſo ancient anſwer Banquo BAST becauſe beſt blood cauſe curſe death deſcribed doth Duncan elſe emendation Engliſh Exeunt expreffion eyes faid falſe fame Faulconbridge fays fear feem fignifies fimilar firſt fleep following paſſage fome foul fuch hath heaven Hecate Henry VI himſelf Holinſhed honour houſe Hubert inſtance itſelf JOHNSON King Henry King Henry IV King John Lady laſt leſs lord MACB Macbeth MACD Macduff Malcolm MALONE means moſt murder muſt myſelf night obſerved occafion old copy paffage paſſage perſon play Pope preſent prince purpoſe Queen Rape of Lucrece reaſon Richard III ſaid ſame ſays ſcene Scotland ſecond ſee ſeems ſenſe Shakſpeare Shakſpeare's ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſpirits ſtand ſtate STEEVENS ſtill ſtrange ſuch ſupported ſuppoſe ſuſpect ſweet thane thee Theobald theſe thoſe thou thought tranflation uſed verſe WARBURTON whoſe WITCH word