The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page v
... fhould be enumerated , the genealogies of all his real per- fonages deduced ; and that as many of his plays as are founded on Roman or British hiftory , fhould be attended by complete tranfcripts from their originals in Sir Tho- mas ...
... fhould be enumerated , the genealogies of all his real per- fonages deduced ; and that as many of his plays as are founded on Roman or British hiftory , fhould be attended by complete tranfcripts from their originals in Sir Tho- mas ...
Page vi
... fhould we perfift in fimilar accumulations of extra- neous matter , that our readers will at length be frighted away from Shakspeare , as the foldiers of Cato deferted their comrade when he became bloated with poifon- crefcens fugere ...
... fhould we perfift in fimilar accumulations of extra- neous matter , that our readers will at length be frighted away from Shakspeare , as the foldiers of Cato deferted their comrade when he became bloated with poifon- crefcens fugere ...
Page vii
... fhould accompany their fecond appearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needlefs , as their own merit is fure to rank their author among the moft diligent and fagacious of our celebrated Poet's annotators . " It may be proper ...
... fhould accompany their fecond appearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needlefs , as their own merit is fure to rank their author among the moft diligent and fagacious of our celebrated Poet's annotators . " It may be proper ...
Page xi
... fhould efcape unnoticed.- There is perhaps no fpecies of publication whatever , more likely to produce diverfity of opinion than verbal cri- ticifms ; for , as there is no certain criterion of truth , no eftablished principle by which ...
... fhould efcape unnoticed.- There is perhaps no fpecies of publication whatever , more likely to produce diverfity of opinion than verbal cri- ticifms ; for , as there is no certain criterion of truth , no eftablished principle by which ...
Page xvi
... fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he wrote ; it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first ...
... fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he wrote ; it would be without doubt a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first ...
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