The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theater |
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Page x
... Steevens to guide him . They both pro- fessed to follow the old copies with scrupulous fidelity , except where a clear necessity compelled them to depart from the readings which they supplied . To this plan it will be found Mr. Malone ...
... Steevens to guide him . They both pro- fessed to follow the old copies with scrupulous fidelity , except where a clear necessity compelled them to depart from the readings which they supplied . To this plan it will be found Mr. Malone ...
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... Steevens should be con- sidered as well founded , where he has ridiculed the notion that any advantage was to be derived from further and more accurate collation of the text ; but upon this subject I must presume to say , that I cannot ...
... Steevens should be con- sidered as well founded , where he has ridiculed the notion that any advantage was to be derived from further and more accurate collation of the text ; but upon this subject I must presume to say , that I cannot ...
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... Steevens , however , seems to have altered his opinion in this instance ; for in his subsequent edition of 1778 , these unimportant words are admitted into the text . In the commencement of Hamlet's inter- view with Ophelia , I have ...
... Steevens , however , seems to have altered his opinion in this instance ; for in his subsequent edition of 1778 , these unimportant words are admitted into the text . In the commencement of Hamlet's inter- view with Ophelia , I have ...
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... Steevens , with respect to the comparative merits of the first and second folio . Mr. Malone , from a careful examination of those two copies , which enabled him to discover a number of corruptions in the latter edition , evidently as ...
... Steevens , with respect to the comparative merits of the first and second folio . Mr. Malone , from a careful examination of those two copies , which enabled him to discover a number of corruptions in the latter edition , evidently as ...
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... Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious investigation that Mr. Plymsell has gone through ; but in a cursory inspection of King Lear , I have discovered ...
... Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious investigation that Mr. Plymsell has gone through ; but in a cursory inspection of King Lear , I have discovered ...
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