The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: ComediesC. Knight, 1842 |
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... folio of 1623 ; and the text in that edition differs in few instances , and those very slight ones , from that of the preceding quartos . 6 ear- Malone has assigned the composition of A Midsummer - Night's Dream ' to the year 1594. We ...
... folio of 1623 ; and the text in that edition differs in few instances , and those very slight ones , from that of the preceding quartos . 6 ear- Malone has assigned the composition of A Midsummer - Night's Dream ' to the year 1594. We ...
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... folio is earthlier happie ; —if the comparative had not been used , it would have been earthlie happie ; and it is easy to see , therefore , that the r has been transposed . b Lordship - authority . The word dominion in our present ...
... folio is earthlier happie ; —if the comparative had not been used , it would have been earthlie happie ; and it is easy to see , therefore , that the r has been transposed . b Lordship - authority . The word dominion in our present ...
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... folio . I could ever , in the quartos . d The quartos and the folio , read- " O cross ! too high to be enthrall'd to love . " Theobald altered love to low ; and the antithesis , which is kept up through the sub- sequent lines ...
... folio . I could ever , in the quartos . d The quartos and the folio , read- " O cross ! too high to be enthrall'd to love . " Theobald altered love to low ; and the antithesis , which is kept up through the sub- sequent lines ...
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... folio . In the quartos we find remote . The read- ing of the folio is supported by several parallel passages ; as in Hamlet , — " It wafts you to a more removed ground ; " and in As You Like It ' - " Your accent is somewhat finer than ...
... folio . In the quartos we find remote . The read- ing of the folio is supported by several parallel passages ; as in Hamlet , — " It wafts you to a more removed ground ; " and in As You Like It ' - " Your accent is somewhat finer than ...
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... folio we have " you fair . " " b Favour - features - appearance - outward qualities . In Cymbeline ' we find- " I have surely seen him ; His favour is familiar to me ; " in ' Measure for Measure , " " Surely , sir , a good favour you ...
... folio we have " you fair . " " b Favour - features - appearance - outward qualities . In Cymbeline ' we find- " I have surely seen him ; His favour is familiar to me ; " in ' Measure for Measure , " " Surely , sir , a good favour you ...
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