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ALEXANDER DYCE Angelo Ben Jonson Cambridge editors Cassio catachresis Claudio cloth Collier Condell's Coriolanus critic dramatist Duke Dyce's dying horror Edition of Shakespeare editors and commentators English English language excellent emendation facsimile fair wife Fashion-monging fcap fellow almost damned flowery tenderness heap of age Heminge and Condell Heywood Iago illustrating injurious love instance J. O. HALLIWELL Jaggard Jonson JOSEPH HUNTER judgement Juliet's language letters of strange Love's Labour's Lost Malone Malone's masculine virtue Masque of Queens meaning Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice misprint Mitford modern editors monger monging monstrance old compositor old copies passage Perseus Poet Portia's post 8vo preposition printed relative and antecedent remark remon reprinted respited RUSSELL SMITH says sense Serm sewed Shake SHAKESPEARIANA sinner into truth SOHO SQUARE speare speare's speech statuës Staunton Steevens strange tenor syllable syntax tion Tis pity Troja Britannica verb Vittoria whitely words writ writers
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Page 7 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them ; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Page 10 - H. — The first Folio, in my opinion, is the only edition worth regarding. And it is much to be wished, that an edition of Shakespeare were given literatim according to the first Folio : which is now become so scarce and dear, that few persons can obtain it.. For, by the presumptuous licence of the dwarfish commentators, who are for ever cutting him down to their own size, we risque the loss of Shakespeare's genuine text ; which that Folio assuredly contains ; notwithstanding some few slight errors...
Page 22 - Leigier Embassadors, my modesty And womanhood I tender; but withall So intangled in a cursed accusation That my defence of force like Perseus, Must personate masculine vertue...