The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page v
... course the purpose of this double annotation is , to suit the work , as far as practicable , to the uses both of the general reader and of the special student . Now , whatever of explanation general readers may need , they naturally ...
... course the purpose of this double annotation is , to suit the work , as far as practicable , to the uses both of the general reader and of the special student . Now , whatever of explanation general readers may need , they naturally ...
Page vii
... course to be read as poetry ; and when not read with pleasure , the right grace and profit of the reading are missed . For the proper instructive- ness of poetry is essentially dependant on its pleasantness ; whereas in other forms of ...
... course to be read as poetry ; and when not read with pleasure , the right grace and profit of the reading are missed . For the proper instructive- ness of poetry is essentially dependant on its pleasantness ; whereas in other forms of ...
Page x
... 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 out clear and free , and by trans- lating strange or unfamiliar words , phrases , and modes 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 out clear and free , and by trans- lating strange or unfamiliar words , phrases , and modes of ...
Page xi
... course of mere intellectualism . All which means , to be sure , that far more real good will come , even to the mind , by foolishly enjoying Shakespeare than by learnedly parsing him . So that here I am minded to apply the saying of ...
... course of mere intellectualism . All which means , to be sure , that far more real good will come , even to the mind , by foolishly enjoying Shakespeare than by learnedly parsing him . So that here I am minded to apply the saying of ...
Page xiii
... course naturally ren- ders the Poet an unmitigable bore to them , and can hardly fail to disgust and repel them ; unless , perchance , it may superinduce upon them a certain dry - rot of formalistic learn- ing . For , in a vast many ...
... course naturally ren- ders the Poet an unmitigable bore to them , and can hardly fail to disgust and repel them ; unless , perchance , it may superinduce upon them a certain dry - rot of formalistic learn- ing . For , in a vast many ...
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