A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare: With Remarks on His Language and that of His Contemporaries, Together with Notes on His Plays and Poems, Volume 1J.R. Smith, 1860 |
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... speak of later editors , I wish to give a single specimen of the various changes which the text of Shakespeare has undergone . It will enable the reader to form some notion of the peculiar difference between the earlier and more recent ...
... speak of later editors , I wish to give a single specimen of the various changes which the text of Shakespeare has undergone . It will enable the reader to form some notion of the peculiar difference between the earlier and more recent ...
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... speak of him as one of the later editors . Some passages of his preface exhibit , in its full development , that morbid horror of conjecture that has since raged like an epidemic among critics and commentators . They , " says he of the ...
... speak of him as one of the later editors . Some passages of his preface exhibit , in its full development , that morbid horror of conjecture that has since raged like an epidemic among critics and commentators . They , " says he of the ...
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... speak for themselves . His was the first Variorum Edition . It was several times reprinted , and gradually expanded under the editorship of Steevens and Reed , till , in 1813 , it reached the formidable number of twenty - one volumes ...
... speak for themselves . His was the first Variorum Edition . It was several times reprinted , and gradually expanded under the editorship of Steevens and Reed , till , in 1813 , it reached the formidable number of twenty - one volumes ...
Page xxxiv
... speak of them at any length . Each gave an entirely new text , Mr. Knight's being founded on the first folio , Mr. Collier's on the old copies in general . Collier , I think , scarcely did full justice to the first folio , and allowed ...
... speak of them at any length . Each gave an entirely new text , Mr. Knight's being founded on the first folio , Mr. Collier's on the old copies in general . Collier , I think , scarcely did full justice to the first folio , and allowed ...
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... speak of old copies , I do not mean evidently surreptitious editions , such as the quarto 1603 of Hamlet , or the Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth , but those which seem to have proceeded in a more regular way from the company to ...
... speak of old copies , I do not mean evidently surreptitious editions , such as the quarto 1603 of Hamlet , or the Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth , but those which seem to have proceeded in a more regular way from the company to ...
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All's Arcadia Beaumont and Fletcher blunder Capell Chapman Collier Collier's Old Corrector Comedy of Errors comma Compare conjecture context corrected corrupt critics Cymbeline Dodsley doth doubt Dyce Dyce's edition editors Elizabethan emendation eyes fair Fairfax Gentlemen of Verona Hamlet Hanmer hath heart honour init instances Jonson Julius Cæsar King Henry VI King Henry VIII King Lear King Richard Knight labours latter lord Love's Malone Massinger metre Middleton Moxon noble Noble Kinsmen noticed occurs old copies Othello passage perhaps play Poems poets pray printed quartos queen quoted rhyme S. V. art second folio seems sense Shakespeare Shirley Shrew Sonnet soul Spenser spirit spright sprite surely suspect sweet Tarquin and Lucrece Tempest thee thou Timon Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verse Walker Winter's Tale word write
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Page 207 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. {Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 279 - The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Page 207 - Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 119 - Nor went I down to kiss him. Ease and wine Have bred these bold tales : Poets, when they rage, Turn gods to men, and make an hour an age. But I will give a greater state and glory, And raise to time a noble memory Of what these lovers are.
Page xxx - The allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible. Conjecture has all the joy and all the pride of invention, and he that has once started a happy change, is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it.
Page 227 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Page 62 - Now is it Rome indeed and room enough When there is in it but one only man. O! you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Page 42 - For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more where those stars light, That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become, as in their sphere.
Page 303 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 128 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners, that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect...