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Page xviii
... partly ) from no better copies than the Prompter's Book , or Piece - meal Parts written out for the use of the actors : For in some places their very * names are thro ' carelessness set down in- stead. names were cvi- xviii The PREFACE .
... partly ) from no better copies than the Prompter's Book , or Piece - meal Parts written out for the use of the actors : For in some places their very * names are thro ' carelessness set down in- stead. names were cvi- xviii The PREFACE .
Page xxvi
William Shakespeare. A TABLE of the several Editions of Shakespear's Plays , made use of and compared in this Impression . R. William Shakespear's Comedies , Histories and MTragedies , blind according to the original Copies . the first ...
William Shakespeare. A TABLE of the several Editions of Shakespear's Plays , made use of and compared in this Impression . R. William Shakespear's Comedies , Histories and MTragedies , blind according to the original Copies . the first ...
Page xxxv
... use of Falstaff . The present offence was indeed avoided ; but I don't know whether the Author may not have been somewhat to blame in his second choice , fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was Knight of the garter , and a ...
... use of Falstaff . The present offence was indeed avoided ; but I don't know whether the Author may not have been somewhat to blame in his second choice , fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was Knight of the garter , and a ...
Page xli
... use him so scurvily , when he comes to the crown , in the end of the second part of Henry the fourth . Amongst other extrava- gances , in the Merry Wives of Windfor , he has made him a Deer - stealer , that he might at the fame time ...
... use him so scurvily , when he comes to the crown , in the end of the second part of Henry the fourth . Amongst other extrava- gances , in the Merry Wives of Windfor , he has made him a Deer - stealer , that he might at the fame time ...
Page xliv
... use of as an ornament to the Sermons of fome of the gravest divines of those times ; perhaps it may not be thought too light for the Stage . But certainly the greatness of this Author's genius do's no where so much appear , as where he ...
... use of as an ornament to the Sermons of fome of the gravest divines of those times ; perhaps it may not be thought too light for the Stage . But certainly the greatness of this Author's genius do's no where so much appear , as where he ...
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