The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have observed its defects , and corrected ...
... fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have observed its defects , and corrected ...
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... fecond folio ; for perhaps no fuch literary agent as an editor of a poetical work , unaccompanied by comments , was at that period to be found . This office , if any where , was vefted in the printer , who transferred it to his ...
... fecond folio ; for perhaps no fuch literary agent as an editor of a poetical work , unaccompanied by comments , was at that period to be found . This office , if any where , was vefted in the printer , who transferred it to his ...
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... fecond folio , which in feveral inftances have been justly reprobated by the laft editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compofitors were wholly unlettered and care- lefs , and a corrector of the ...
... fecond folio , which in feveral inftances have been justly reprobated by the laft editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compofitors were wholly unlettered and care- lefs , and a corrector of the ...
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... fecond folio of our author's plays . He al- ways ftood forward as a determined advocate for its authority , on which , we believe , more than one of his emendations were formed . At least , we are certain that he never attempted any ...
... fecond folio of our author's plays . He al- ways ftood forward as a determined advocate for its authority , on which , we believe , more than one of his emendations were formed . At least , we are certain that he never attempted any ...
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... fecond folio , with all its blunders , has difplayed . The fame gentleman alfo ( fee his Preface , p . 410 ) fpeaks with fome confidence of having proved his affertions relative to the worthlefsnefs of this book . But how are thefe ...
... fecond folio , with all its blunders , has difplayed . The fame gentleman alfo ( fee his Preface , p . 410 ) fpeaks with fome confidence of having proved his affertions relative to the worthlefsnefs of this book . But how are thefe ...
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