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... corrupt of Shakspeare's other dramas , compared with Pericles , is purity itself . The metre is feldom attended to ; verfe is frequently printed as profe , and the groffet errors abound in almoft every page . I mention these cir ...
... corrupt of Shakspeare's other dramas , compared with Pericles , is purity itself . The metre is feldom attended to ; verfe is frequently printed as profe , and the groffet errors abound in almoft every page . I mention these cir ...
Page 6
... corrupted by tranfcription , interpolation , & c . that were it published , like the other dramas of Shakspeare , with fcrupulous warning of every little change which neceffity compels an editor to make in it , his comment would more ...
... corrupted by tranfcription , interpolation , & c . that were it published , like the other dramas of Shakspeare , with fcrupulous warning of every little change which neceffity compels an editor to make in it , his comment would more ...
Page 7
... corrupted play ,, have I been thus ample in my confeffion , I am not confcious that in any other drama I have changed a word , or the pofition of a fyllable , without con- ftant and formal notice of such deviations from our author's ...
... corrupted play ,, have I been thus ample in my confeffion , I am not confcious that in any other drama I have changed a word , or the pofition of a fyllable , without con- ftant and formal notice of such deviations from our author's ...
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... corrupted or changed in the theatre , was effe & ually withheld from the publick ; and every commentator on this play agrees in a belief that it muft have been printed by means of a copy far as Deucalion .off " from the manufcript which ...
... corrupted or changed in the theatre , was effe & ually withheld from the publick ; and every commentator on this play agrees in a belief that it muft have been printed by means of a copy far as Deucalion .off " from the manufcript which ...
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... corruption in the words of Pericles . With what propriety can a lady's thoughts be ftyled the king of every virtue , & c . ? Let the reader exert his fagacity on this occafion . In a fubfequent fcene Jupiter is called the king of ...
... corruption in the words of Pericles . With what propriety can a lady's thoughts be ftyled the king of every virtue , & c . ? Let the reader exert his fagacity on this occafion . In a fubfequent fcene Jupiter is called the king of ...
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