Hamlet ; Othello |
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Page 32
WARBURTON . I do not admire the repetition of the word , but it has so much of
our author ' s manner , that I find no temptation to recede from the old copies .
JOHNSON . The meaning of the passage is no more than this , Your father lost a
...
WARBURTON . I do not admire the repetition of the word , but it has so much of
our author ' s manner , that I find no temptation to recede from the old copies .
JOHNSON . The meaning of the passage is no more than this , Your father lost a
...
Page 147
WARBURTON . 4 That , from her working , all his visage wann ' d ; Tears in his
eyes , distraction in ' s afpéét , ] Wan ' d ( wann ' d it should have been spelt , ) is
the reading of the quarto , which Dr . Warburton , I think rightly , restored . The
folio ...
WARBURTON . 4 That , from her working , all his visage wann ' d ; Tears in his
eyes , distraction in ' s afpéét , ] Wan ' d ( wann ' d it should have been spelt , ) is
the reading of the quarto , which Dr . Warburton , I think rightly , restored . The
folio ...
Page 368
WARBURTON . I formerly thought that the lines which have given rife to the
foregoing observations , were extracted from some old play , of which it appeared
to me probable that Christopher Marlowe was the author ; but whatever
Shakspeare ...
WARBURTON . I formerly thought that the lines which have given rife to the
foregoing observations , were extracted from some old play , of which it appeared
to me probable that Christopher Marlowe was the author ; but whatever
Shakspeare ...
Page 560
To almost every sentence of Dr . Warburton ' s note , an objection may be taken ;
but I have preserved it as a specimen of this commentator ' s manner . It is not
true that king James created the order of baronets four after he came to the
throne .
To almost every sentence of Dr . Warburton ' s note , an objection may be taken ;
but I have preserved it as a specimen of this commentator ' s manner . It is not
true that king James created the order of baronets four after he came to the
throne .
Page 578
However ingenious Dr . Warburton ' s note may be , it is certainly too forced and
far - fetched . Othello alludes only to Callio ' s dream , which had been invented
and told him by lago . When many confused and very interesting ideas pour in ...
However ingenious Dr . Warburton ' s note may be , it is certainly too forced and
far - fetched . Othello alludes only to Callio ' s dream , which had been invented
and told him by lago . When many confused and very interesting ideas pour in ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Hamlet ; Othello Volume 15 of The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare Volume 15 of The Plays, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | George Steevens |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributors | Thomas Longman, E. and S. Harding |
| Publisher | T. Longman ... [and 31 others], 1793 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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