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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... quarto paper , so as to fuit the best editions of the plays of Shakspeare . Price of the pair to Subscribers 7s . 6d . No Proofs will be taken off . Non - subscribers 10s . 6d . The money to be paid at the time of subscribing , or at ...
... quarto paper , so as to fuit the best editions of the plays of Shakspeare . Price of the pair to Subscribers 7s . 6d . No Proofs will be taken off . Non - subscribers 10s . 6d . The money to be paid at the time of subscribing , or at ...
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... quarto . But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumftance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he after- wards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a genuine representation , how happened it that ...
... quarto . But the contrary is the fact ; and how is this circumftance to be accounted for ? If in 1719 Vertue supposed the head which he after- wards admitted into his Set of Poets , was a genuine representation , how happened it that ...
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... quartos of Macbeth , An- tony and Cleopatra , All's well that ends well , & c . been sent into the world , from how many corruptions might the text of all these dramas have been secured ! * See first folio , & c . for the 34 ADVERTISEMENT .
... quartos of Macbeth , An- tony and Cleopatra , All's well that ends well , & c . been sent into the world , from how many corruptions might the text of all these dramas have been secured ! * See first folio , & c . for the 34 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... 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 Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the deci- fions of a Hemings or a Condell ...
... 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 Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the deci- fions of a Hemings or a Condell ...
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... quartos and folios , configned to us by a set of people who were wholly uninftructed in the common forms of style , orthography , and punctuation . We do not there- fore hesitate to affirm , that a blind fidelity to the eldeft printed ...
... quartos and folios , configned to us by a set of people who were wholly uninftructed in the common forms of style , orthography , and punctuation . We do not there- fore hesitate to affirm , that a blind fidelity to the eldeft printed ...
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