The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Ginn, Heath, 1881 |
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Page xi
... 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 Wordsworth , that " he is oft the wisest man ...
... 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 Wordsworth , that " he is oft the wisest man ...
Page xiv
... mean . The thing is clear enough , until a garru- lous and obtrusive learning takes it in hand ; and then dark- ness begins to gather round it . And so the Bible generally , as we all know , has been so worried and belaboured with ...
... mean . The thing is clear enough , until a garru- lous and obtrusive learning takes it in hand ; and then dark- ness begins to gather round it . And so the Bible generally , as we all know , has been so worried and belaboured with ...
Page xvi
... means to delude others . It may flatter common readers to be told that they are just as competent to judge for themselves in these matters as those are who have made a lifelong study of them : but the plain truth is , that such readers ...
... means to delude others . It may flatter common readers to be told that they are just as competent to judge for themselves in these matters as those are who have made a lifelong study of them : but the plain truth is , that such readers ...
Page xxiv
... means infallible , yet were not fools : they knew several things ; and their minds were at least tolerably clear of conceit and cant : I suspect they understood their business quite as well , and laboured in it quite as uprightly and ...
... means infallible , yet were not fools : they knew several things ; and their minds were at least tolerably clear of conceit and cant : I suspect they understood their business quite as well , and laboured in it quite as uprightly and ...
Page xxv
... mean : This Mr. Furness , in his King Lear , iii . 6 , prints " This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews " ; thus rejecting Theobald's reading , " broken senses , " for the old text : and he does this on the ground that " the ...
... mean : This Mr. Furness , in his King Lear , iii . 6 , prints " This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews " ; thus rejecting Theobald's reading , " broken senses , " for the old text : and he does this on the ground that " the ...
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