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
... thefe Volumes to effectuate an idea which the laft very in- telligent Editor of SHAKSPEARE predicted would fome time take place . " To other defects of our late editions , " he fays , " may be fubjoined , as not the leaft notorious , an ...
... thefe Volumes to effectuate an idea which the laft very in- telligent Editor of SHAKSPEARE predicted would fome time take place . " To other defects of our late editions , " he fays , " may be fubjoined , as not the leaft notorious , an ...
Page vii
... thefe cafes , either the commentator or the poet must give way , and no reader will patiently endure to see Alcides beaten by his page .'- Inferior volat umbra deo.- Mr. M. MASON will alfo forgive us if we add , that a small number of ...
... thefe cafes , either the commentator or the poet must give way , and no reader will patiently endure to see Alcides beaten by his page .'- Inferior volat umbra deo.- Mr. M. MASON will alfo forgive us if we add , that a small number of ...
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... thefe I might add , that incomparable character of Shylock the Jew , in The Mer- chant of Venice ; but though we have feen that play received and acted as a comedy , and the part of the Jew performed by an excellent comedian , yet I ...
... thefe I might add , that incomparable character of Shylock the Jew , in The Mer- chant of Venice ; but though we have feen that play received and acted as a comedy , and the part of the Jew performed by an excellent comedian , yet I ...
Page xxv
... flight above mankind , and the limits of the vifible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempeft , A Midfummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and Hamlet . Hamlet . Of thefe , The Tempeft , however it OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . XXV.
... flight above mankind , and the limits of the vifible world . Such are his attempts in The Tempeft , A Midfummer - Night's Dream , Macbeth , and Hamlet . Hamlet . Of thefe , The Tempeft , however it OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . XXV.
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... thefe gentlemen , are as little founded in truth as their defcription of the ridiculous Jubilee at Stratford , which they have been taught to reprefent as an affair of general approbation and national concern . They fay , that ...
... thefe gentlemen , are as little founded in truth as their defcription of the ridiculous Jubilee at Stratford , which they have been taught to reprefent as an affair of general approbation and national concern . They fay , that ...
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