The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... VOL . III . Malone's historical Account of the English Stage - 1 Additions 351 Additions by Steevens 404 Further hiftorical Account by Chalmers - 417 Addenda by the same - 513 TEMPEST . VOL . IV . TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA CONTENTS .
... VOL . III . Malone's historical Account of the English Stage - 1 Additions 351 Additions by Steevens 404 Further hiftorical Account by Chalmers - 417 Addenda by the same - 513 TEMPEST . VOL . IV . TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA CONTENTS .
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... stage of chequer'd life he trod , " Careless of chance , confiding in his God ! " This tomb may perish , but not so his name " Who shed new lustre upon SHAKSPEARE's fame ! " Mr. Steevens to the proprietors of the preceding edition , iv ...
... stage of chequer'd life he trod , " Careless of chance , confiding in his God ! " This tomb may perish , but not so his name " Who shed new lustre upon SHAKSPEARE's fame ! " Mr. Steevens to the proprietors of the preceding edition , iv ...
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... stage doth fiaine pure gentle bloud , " Yet generous yee are in minde and moode . " The reader will observe from the initials in the mar- gin of the third of these wretched lines , that W. Shakspeare was here alluded to as the poet ...
... stage doth fiaine pure gentle bloud , " Yet generous yee are in minde and moode . " The reader will observe from the initials in the mar- gin of the third of these wretched lines , that W. Shakspeare was here alluded to as the poet ...
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... stage garb did not stand so characteristically before a volume of Poems as before a collection of Plays ; and yet it must be confeffed , that this change might have been introduced for no other reason than more effectually to ...
... stage garb did not stand so characteristically before a volume of Poems as before a collection of Plays ; and yet it must be confeffed , that this change might have been introduced for no other reason than more effectually to ...
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... stage . - Similar interpolations , however , in the text of Shakspeare , can only be suspected , and therefore must remain unexpelled . To other defects of our late editions may be sub- joined , as not the least notorious , an ...
... stage . - Similar interpolations , however , in the text of Shakspeare , can only be suspected , and therefore must remain unexpelled . To other defects of our late editions may be sub- joined , as not the least notorious , an ...
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