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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... instead of having submitted to take his first engraving of our author from a juvenile likeness of James I. and his last from Mr. Keck's unauthenticated purchase out of the dreffing - room of a modern actress . It is obvious , therefore ...
... instead of having submitted to take his first engraving of our author from a juvenile likeness of James I. and his last from Mr. Keck's unauthenticated purchase out of the dreffing - room of a modern actress . It is obvious , therefore ...
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... , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
... , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
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... instead of it , that we have deviated from the text of the publishers of single plays in quarto , or their fuccessors , the edi- tors of the first folio ; that we have sometimes fol- lowed the suggestions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a ...
... instead of it , that we have deviated from the text of the publishers of single plays in quarto , or their fuccessors , the edi- tors of the first folio ; that we have sometimes fol- lowed the suggestions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a ...
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... , fo collation , divested of judgment , will be often worse than thrown away , because it introduces obscurity instead of light . To render Shakspeare less intelligible by the recall of corrupt phraseology , is not , 36 ADVERTISEMENT .
... , fo collation , divested of judgment , will be often worse than thrown away , because it introduces obscurity instead of light . To render Shakspeare less intelligible by the recall of corrupt phraseology , is not , 36 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... instead of wind , stables instead of stable , sessions instead of fession , fins instead of fin , and ( we shudder while we recite the accufation ) my instead of mine . Such small deer " Have been our food for many a year ; " so long ...
... instead of wind , stables instead of stable , sessions instead of fession , fins instead of fin , and ( we shudder while we recite the accufation ) my instead of mine . Such small deer " Have been our food for many a year ; " so long ...
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