The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... editor could not explain , he would amend , and reads : - and do aught a while . WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the fignification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning from this note , I ...
... editor could not explain , he would amend , and reads : - and do aught a while . WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the fignification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning from this note , I ...
Page 9
... editors ; and of this comedy there is no quarto edition . STEEVENS . Mr. Pope and the subsequent editors read - be I am before ; more correctly , but without authority . Our author is equally irregular in The Winter's Tale : " I am ...
... editors ; and of this comedy there is no quarto edition . STEEVENS . Mr. Pope and the subsequent editors read - be I am before ; more correctly , but without authority . Our author is equally irregular in The Winter's Tale : " I am ...
Page 36
... content . Corrected by the editor of the second folio . I am not fure that the transposition is necessary . Our authour might have used content as an adjective . MALONE . ACT II . SCENE I. The Forest of Arden . 36 AS YOU LIKE IT . 1 ...
... content . Corrected by the editor of the second folio . I am not fure that the transposition is necessary . Our authour might have used content as an adjective . MALONE . ACT II . SCENE I. The Forest of Arden . 36 AS YOU LIKE IT . 1 ...
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... editor of the second folio . MALONE . Shakspeare has almost the same thought in his Lover's Com plaint : " “ _ in a river Upon whose weeping margin she was fet , " Like ufury , applying wet to wet . " Again , in K. Henry VI . P. III ...
... editor of the second folio . MALONE . Shakspeare has almost the same thought in his Lover's Com plaint : " “ _ in a river Upon whose weeping margin she was fet , " Like ufury , applying wet to wet . " Again , in K. Henry VI . P. III ...
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... editor of the second folio , who appears to have been utterly ignorant of our author's phraseology and metre , reads - The body of the country , & c . which has been followed by all the subsequent editors . MALONE . Is not country used ...
... editor of the second folio , who appears to have been utterly ignorant of our author's phraseology and metre , reads - The body of the country , & c . which has been followed by all the subsequent editors . MALONE . Is not country used ...
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