The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: ComediesC. Knight, 1842 |
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... quarto in the British Museum - in A , p . 4 , last line , we find are instead of arme ; with one or two similar misprints . Such errors might have existed in Steevens's individual copy ; for it was the evident practice to keep the types ...
... quarto in the British Museum - in A , p . 4 , last line , we find are instead of arme ; with one or two similar misprints . Such errors might have existed in Steevens's individual copy ; for it was the evident practice to keep the types ...
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... quartos . 6 ear- Malone has assigned the composition of A Midsummer - Night's Dream ' to the year 1594. We are not disposed to object to this , — indeed we are inclined to believe that he has pretty exactly indicated the precise year ...
... quartos . 6 ear- Malone has assigned the composition of A Midsummer - Night's Dream ' to the year 1594. We are not disposed to object to this , — indeed we are inclined to believe that he has pretty exactly indicated the precise year ...
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... quarto , with others , 1591. " We greatly doubt the propriety of this conjec- ture , which Malone has adopted . Spenser's poem is certainly a satire in one sense of the word ; for it makes the Muses lament that all the glorious ...
... quarto , with others , 1591. " We greatly doubt the propriety of this conjec- ture , which Malone has adopted . Spenser's poem is certainly a satire in one sense of the word ; for it makes the Muses lament that all the glorious ...
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... 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 , justifies the change : -high - low ...
... 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 , justifies the change : -high - low ...
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... 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 you could pur ...
... 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 you could pur ...
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