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Page ix
... appear in individual copies of the Quarto , —a result of the practice of revising the sheets while in the press . Variants from the Bodleian , Capell , Devonshire , British Museum , Halliwell - Phillipps ( Q 1 ) and Steevens copies are ...
... appear in individual copies of the Quarto , —a result of the practice of revising the sheets while in the press . Variants from the Bodleian , Capell , Devonshire , British Museum , Halliwell - Phillipps ( Q 1 ) and Steevens copies are ...
Page xii
... appearing first , as far as we know , in the Folio of 1623 , and that Jonson's lines were published in 1616 : - Oh thou fond many , with what loud applause Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke , Before he was what thou ...
... appearing first , as far as we know , in the Folio of 1623 , and that Jonson's lines were published in 1616 : - Oh thou fond many , with what loud applause Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke , Before he was what thou ...
Page xiii
... appear in a truncated form in the Quarto , allows others to remain in the same mutilated state in which they stand in the earlier text . The Folio again follows closely the text of the Quarto in the parts of the play common to the two ...
... appear in a truncated form in the Quarto , allows others to remain in the same mutilated state in which they stand in the earlier text . The Folio again follows closely the text of the Quarto in the parts of the play common to the two ...
Page xiv
... appearing in the MS . which is not also to be found in the Quarto . The text of 2 Henry IV . as given in the Dering MS . has neither independent authority nor critical value . " Doubts have been cast upon the authenticity of the ...
... appearing in the MS . which is not also to be found in the Quarto . The text of 2 Henry IV . as given in the Dering MS . has neither independent authority nor critical value . " Doubts have been cast upon the authenticity of the ...
Page xv
... appears to the present editor to sup- port rather the view that it was written in 1598 ( Malone and Fleay ) or early in 1599 . The downward limit of date is fixed by the allusion by name to Justice Silence in Jonson's Every Man out of ...
... appears to the present editor to sup- port rather the view that it was written in 1598 ( Malone and Fleay ) or early in 1599 . The downward limit of date is fixed by the allusion by name to Justice Silence in Jonson's Every Man out of ...
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Page 20 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 164 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 110 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs...
Page 219 - King. I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool and...
Page 168 - And noble offices thou mayst effect Of mediation, after I am dead, Between his greatness and thy other brethren : Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love, Nor lose the good advantage of his grace By seeming cold or careless of his will ; For he is gracious, if he be observed : 30 He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity...