The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page xii
... learned style ? To be sure , here , as elsewhere , an editor's art , or want of art , can easily find or make ever so many difficulties , in order to magnify itself and its office by meeting them , or by seeming to meet them . And in ...
... learned style ? To be sure , here , as elsewhere , an editor's art , or want of art , can easily find or make ever so many difficulties , in order to magnify itself and its office by meeting them , or by seeming to meet them . And in ...
Page xiii
... learned and prating dunces , instead of making them intelligent , thoughtful , happy men and women in the ordi- nary tasks , duties , and concerns of life . Thus Shakespeare is now in a fair way to undergo the same fate which a much ...
... learned and prating dunces , instead of making them intelligent , thoughtful , happy men and women in the ordi- nary tasks , duties , and concerns of life . Thus Shakespeare is now in a fair way to undergo the same fate which a much ...
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... learned and elaborate verbosity exhaled from subjacent regions . The tendency now is to replace the Bible with Shakespeare as our master - code of practical wisdom and guidance . I am far , very far indeed , from regarding this as a ...
... learned and elaborate verbosity exhaled from subjacent regions . The tendency now is to replace the Bible with Shakespeare as our master - code of practical wisdom and guidance . I am far , very far indeed , from regarding this as a ...
Page xv
... learned men's works like the first letter of a patent , or a limnèd book ; which , though it hath large flourishes , yet is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity for words ...
... learned men's works like the first letter of a patent , or a limnèd book ; which , though it hath large flourishes , yet is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity for words ...
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William Shakespeare Henry Norman Hudson. once in forty or fifty years , highly learned editions of Shake- speare ; such , for instance , as Mr. Howard Furness's mag- nificent Variorum , which , so far as it has come , is a truly ...
William Shakespeare Henry Norman Hudson. once in forty or fifty years , highly learned editions of Shake- speare ; such , for instance , as Mr. Howard Furness's mag- nificent Variorum , which , so far as it has come , is a truly ...
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