The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page vii
... common readers to be met ? As before remarked , to urge reasons of duty is quite from the purpose : reading Shake- speare as duty and without pleasure is of no use , save as it may lift and draw them into a sense of his pleasantness ...
... common readers to be met ? As before remarked , to urge reasons of duty is quite from the purpose : reading Shake- speare as duty and without pleasure is of no use , save as it may lift and draw them into a sense of his pleasantness ...
Page viii
... common minds . Generally to such minds , and often even to uncommon minds , Shakespeare's world may well seem at first a strange world , · strange not only for the spiritualized realism of it , but because it is so much more deeply and ...
... common minds . Generally to such minds , and often even to uncommon minds , Shakespeare's world may well seem at first a strange world , · strange not only for the spiritualized realism of it , but because it is so much more deeply and ...
Page ix
... common readers naturally have no little difficulty in coming to an easy and familiar converse with him . On some of these points , an editor can give little or no positive help : he can at the best but remove or lessen hindrances , and ...
... common readers naturally have no little difficulty in coming to an easy and familiar converse with him . On some of these points , an editor can give little or no positive help : he can at the best but remove or lessen hindrances , and ...
Page x
... common readers need for making them intelligently and even delightedly at home with the Poet . Of course this is to be mostly done by furnishing such and so much of comment and citation as may be required for setting the Poet's meaning ...
... common readers need for making them intelligently and even delightedly at home with the Poet . Of course this is to be mostly done by furnishing such and so much of comment and citation as may be required for setting the Poet's meaning ...
Page xi
... common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often , putting average readers in mind how ignorant and inferior they are , is not the best way , nor the right way , to help them . But what seems specially needful to be kept in ...
... common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often , putting average readers in mind how ignorant and inferior they are , is not the best way , nor the right way , to help them . But what seems specially needful to be kept in ...
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Ægeon Antipholus Ben Jonson chain Collier's second folio correction daughter death didst doth Duke Dyce edition Eglamour Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit fair father fool gentle gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give grace hair hand hath Henry Condell honour husband instance Item John Heminge John Shakespeare Julia Julius Cæsar King labour lady Launce letter live look lord Lucetta LUCIANA Madam Marry master means merry mind mistress old copies old text original reads phrase plays Poet Poet's pray printed probably quibble SCENE seems sense servant Shake Silvia Sir Proteus Sir Thurio sister Snitterfield speak Speed Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon sure Susanna Hall sweet Syracuse tell thee thing thou art thou hast thought thyself Twelfth Night unto Valentine Venus and Adonis verse villain wife William Shakespeare word