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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... moft fcrupulously adopted ; and if in the felection of the Notes ( a tafk more delicate and difficult than may in general be imagined ) fome fuper- fluities are even yet retained , it must be attributed folely to a wish to preserve the ...
... moft fcrupulously adopted ; and if in the felection of the Notes ( a tafk more delicate and difficult than may in general be imagined ) fome fuper- fluities are even yet retained , it must be attributed folely to a wish to preserve the ...
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... moft diligent and fagacious of our celebrated Poet's annotators . " It may be proper , indeed , to observe that a few of these remarks are omitted because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by ...
... moft diligent and fagacious of our celebrated Poet's annotators . " It may be proper , indeed , to observe that a few of these remarks are omitted because they had been anticipated ; and that a few others have excluded themselves by ...
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... moft at heart , was the illuftration of Shakspeare , in which it must be owned he has clearly furpaffed all the former editors . If , without his abilities , application , or reading , I have happened to fuc- ceed in explaining fome ...
... moft at heart , was the illuftration of Shakspeare , in which it must be owned he has clearly furpaffed all the former editors . If , without his abilities , application , or reading , I have happened to fuc- ceed in explaining fome ...
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... moft vigorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the beft . I would not be thought by this to mean , that his fancy 7 There is a ftage tradition , that his firft office in the theatre was that of Call ...
... moft vigorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the beft . I would not be thought by this to mean , that his fancy 7 There is a ftage tradition , that his firft office in the theatre was that of Call ...
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... moft excellent in . There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical hu- mours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the fatire of the prefent age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a ...
... moft excellent in . There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical hu- mours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the fatire of the prefent age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a ...
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