The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page v
... light upon many things for the full discussion or elucidation of which they will have to go beyond the page before them ; though I believe even these like to have the matter within convenient reach and easy reference . At all events ...
... light upon many things for the full discussion or elucidation of which they will have to go beyond the page before them ; though I believe even these like to have the matter within convenient reach and easy reference . At all events ...
Page viii
... light , and joy its own security . " These remarks , I believe , indicate , as well as I know how to do , my idea- I can hardly say , I dare not say , my ideal- of what a popular edition of Shakespeare ought to be . The editorial part ...
... light , and joy its own security . " These remarks , I believe , indicate , as well as I know how to do , my idea- I can hardly say , I dare not say , my ideal- of what a popular edition of Shakespeare ought to be . The editorial part ...
Page x
... have done that " ; and a style that is continually making such readers sensible of their ig- norance , or of their inferiority to the writer , is not good . For the proper light of a truly luminous speaker is one X PREFACE .
... have done that " ; and a style that is continually making such readers sensible of their ig- norance , or of their inferiority to the writer , is not good . For the proper light of a truly luminous speaker is one X PREFACE .
Page xi
... light in the hearer ; so that the light seems to come , and indeed really does come , from the hearer's own mind . It is much the same in editing a standard author for common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often ...
... light in the hearer ; so that the light seems to come , and indeed really does come , from the hearer's own mind . It is much the same in editing a standard author for common use . And for an editor to be all the while , or often ...
Page xiv
... light can hardly struggle or filtrate through the dense vapours of 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 ...
... light can hardly struggle or filtrate through the dense vapours of 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 ...
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