Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 2J. Wright, 1805 |
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... corrupt use of the imperfect past tense for the perfect , sitten , has become so general as to make propriety almost obsolete . " That Tyber trembled , " & c . Insomuch that Tyber trembled , & c . as in Mac- beth : There's one did laugh ...
... corrupt use of the imperfect past tense for the perfect , sitten , has become so general as to make propriety almost obsolete . " That Tyber trembled , " & c . Insomuch that Tyber trembled , & c . as in Mac- beth : There's one did laugh ...
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... much less in Mr. Malone's , TOO REPLETE with blood . " I believe it only means distempered , corrupt , requiring to be purged and corrected , by being bled . 66 341 . ( 6 Live a thousand years , " C 2 JULIUS CÆSAR . 19 (6 ...
... much less in Mr. Malone's , TOO REPLETE with blood . " I believe it only means distempered , corrupt , requiring to be purged and corrected , by being bled . 66 341 . ( 6 Live a thousand years , " C 2 JULIUS CÆSAR . 19 (6 ...
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... , I think , of corruption : we might read , in mercy to the metre , " Hath done this deed on Cæsar ; but for you , " Mark Antony , our swords have leaden points . " " Our arms , in strength of malice , and 20 JULIUS CÆSAR .
... , I think , of corruption : we might read , in mercy to the metre , " Hath done this deed on Cæsar ; but for you , " Mark Antony , our swords have leaden points . " " Our arms , in strength of malice , and 20 JULIUS CÆSAR .
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... corruption . It is very remarkable that Voltaire , who has stolen and transplanted into his own tra- gedy of Brutus , the fine speech of Antony to the people ; and has unblushingly received the highest compliments upon it , from the ...
... corruption . It is very remarkable that Voltaire , who has stolen and transplanted into his own tra- gedy of Brutus , the fine speech of Antony to the people ; and has unblushingly received the highest compliments upon it , from the ...
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... corruption . If Cleo- patra uttered only these words , she might as well have been silent ; for Antony had just expressed his willingness to hear the messenger's news , or the sum of it , though it did " grate him . " The addition of an ...
... corruption . If Cleo- patra uttered only these words , she might as well have been silent ; for Antony had just expressed his willingness to hear the messenger's news , or the sum of it , though it did " grate him . " The addition of an ...
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Antony Apemantus appears believe better Brutus CAPEL LOFFT Cassio Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death Desd Desdemona disorder do't dost doth Duke ejected ellipsis emendation Emil expression eyes fair false fear folio give Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven hemistic Henry honour hypermeter Iago Iago's interpolation Johnson Juliet Julius Cæsar Kent king King Lear knave lady Lear LOFFT LORD CHEDWORTH lost Macbeth madam Malone Mark Antony meaning measure Merchant of Venice metre nature ne'er never occurs omitted Othello passage perhaps play poet Posthumus pray PRINCE OF TYRE propose quarto reads queen regulate remark Romeo says SCENE SCENE II seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose swear syllable thee thing thou thought Timon tion useless verb verse villain wanting Warburton's words