Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier ...Whittaker and Company, 1853 - 512 pages |
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... fact , that , from the first page to the last , it contains notes and emendations in a hand - writing not much later than the time when it came from the press . Unfortunately it is not perfect it begins , indeed , with " The Tempest ...
... fact , that , from the first page to the last , it contains notes and emendations in a hand - writing not much later than the time when it came from the press . Unfortunately it is not perfect it begins , indeed , with " The Tempest ...
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... facts , arguments , or observations that occurred to me in their favour . In the history of the volume to which I have been thus indebted , I can offer little that may serve to give it authen- ticity . It is very certain that the ...
... facts , arguments , or observations that occurred to me in their favour . In the history of the volume to which I have been thus indebted , I can offer little that may serve to give it authen- ticity . It is very certain that the ...
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... fact we may add , that hundreds of stage - directions have been inserted in manuscript , as if for the guidance and instruction of actors , in order that no mistake might be made in what is usually denominated stage - business . It is ...
... fact we may add , that hundreds of stage - directions have been inserted in manuscript , as if for the guidance and instruction of actors , in order that no mistake might be made in what is usually denominated stage - business . It is ...
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... fact , the work of the same hand1 ? Passing by these matters , upon which we can arrive at no certain result , we must briefly advert to another point upon which , however , we are quite as much in the dark - we mean the authority upon ...
... fact , the work of the same hand1 ? Passing by these matters , upon which we can arrive at no certain result , we must briefly advert to another point upon which , however , we are quite as much in the dark - we mean the authority upon ...
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... fact ? that every body was in error , and that our great dramatist employed an old word , which he had already used in his " Lucrece , " 1594 , and which means swollen , viz . bollen it is the participle of the verb bolne , xii ...
... fact ? that every body was in error , and that our great dramatist employed an old word , which he had already used in his " Lucrece , " 1594 , and which means swollen , viz . bollen it is the participle of the verb bolne , xii ...
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Page 425 - You cannot call it love; for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this?
Page 398 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 171 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
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