The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... old copy unneceffarily and harshly reads- - ere the fet of fun . STEEVENS . * There to meet with Macbeth . ] Thus the old copy . Mr. Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . ( The infertion , however , seems ...
... old copy unneceffarily and harshly reads- - ere the fet of fun . STEEVENS . * There to meet with Macbeth . ] Thus the old copy . Mr. Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . ( The infertion , however , seems ...
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... old copy has - Doubtfull - fo that my addition confifts of but a fingle letter . STEEVENS . 1 - Macdonwald- ] Thus the old copy . According to Holinshed we should read - Macdowald . STEEVENS . So also the Scottish Chronicles . However ...
... old copy has - Doubtfull - fo that my addition confifts of but a fingle letter . STEEVENS . 1 - Macdonwald- ] Thus the old copy . According to Holinshed we should read - Macdowald . STEEVENS . So also the Scottish Chronicles . However ...
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... old copy has Gallow - groffes . Corrected by the editor of the fecond folio , MALONE . 4 And fortune , on his damned quarrel smiling , ] The old copy has - quarry ; but I am inclined to read quarrel . Quarrel was formerly used for cause ...
... old copy has Gallow - groffes . Corrected by the editor of the fecond folio , MALONE . 4 And fortune , on his damned quarrel smiling , ] The old copy has - quarry ; but I am inclined to read quarrel . Quarrel was formerly used for cause ...
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... old copy reads- Like valour's minion , carv'd out his passage Till he fac'd the Slave . As an hemistich must be admitted , it seems more favourable to the metre that it should be found where it is now left.- And ne'er fhook hands , nor ...
... old copy reads- Like valour's minion , carv'd out his passage Till he fac'd the Slave . As an hemistich must be admitted , it seems more favourable to the metre that it should be found where it is now left.- And ne'er fhook hands , nor ...
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... old copy reads - Which nev'r . -Shook hands- ] So , in King Henry VI . P. III : " Till our King Henry had shook hands with death . " STEEVENS . Mr. Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is ...
... old copy reads - Which nev'r . -Shook hands- ] So , in King Henry VI . P. III : " Till our King Henry had shook hands with death . " STEEVENS . Mr. Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is ...
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