The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; Scatcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies ... [and 28 others in London], J. Deighton and sons, Cambridge: Wilson and son, York: and Stirling and Slade, Fairbairn and Anderson, and D. Brown, Edinburgh., 1821 |
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Page 8
... old copy has - Protheus ; but this is merely the antiquated mode of spelling Proteus . See the Princely Plea- sures at Kenelworth Castle , by G. Gascoigne , 1587 , where " Protheus appeared , sitting on a dolphyns back . " Again , in ...
... old copy has - Protheus ; but this is merely the antiquated mode of spelling Proteus . See the Princely Plea- sures at Kenelworth Castle , by G. Gascoigne , 1587 , where " Protheus appeared , sitting on a dolphyns back . " Again , in ...
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... old copy throughout this play , is merely the old spelling of Proteus , a circumstance which escaped him and all other editors till the year 1793. Thus in " the True Tragedie of Richard , Duke of Yorke , " 1595 , on which Shakspeare ...
... old copy throughout this play , is merely the old spelling of Proteus , a circumstance which escaped him and all other editors till the year 1793. Thus in " the True Tragedie of Richard , Duke of Yorke , " 1595 , on which Shakspeare ...
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... old copy has - I love myself . The correction was made by Mr. Pope . In Antony and Cleopatra , Act . V. Sc . I. , we have in the old copy - For Cæsar cannot leave to be ungentle - for live to be ungentle . MALONE . 4 MADE wit with ...
... old copy has - I love myself . The correction was made by Mr. Pope . In Antony and Cleopatra , Act . V. Sc . I. , we have in the old copy - For Cæsar cannot leave to be ungentle - for live to be ungentle . MALONE . 4 MADE wit with ...
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... old copy is certainly right . The meaning is , -She being so hard to me who was the bearer of your mind , I fear she will prove no less so to you in the act of telling your mind , i . e . when you address her in person . VOL . IV . C ...
... old copy is certainly right . The meaning is , -She being so hard to me who was the bearer of your mind , I fear she will prove no less so to you in the act of telling your mind , i . e . when you address her in person . VOL . IV . C ...
Page 18
... copy of this play , he adhered to the sophisticated reading of the second folio , the words which are above ... old reading is - cestern'd . STEEVENS . This typographical error was second folio . MALONE . corrected by the editor of the ...
... copy of this play , he adhered to the sophisticated reading of the second folio , the words which are above ... old reading is - cestern'd . STEEVENS . This typographical error was second folio . MALONE . corrected by the editor of the ...
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Page 388 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.