“The” Plays Of William Shakespeare, Volume 1T. Bensley, 1778 |
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... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
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... ftand , not that I think the prefent queftion one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been ...
... ftand , not that I think the prefent queftion one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been ...
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... Those whom their fame invites to the fame ftudies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to ftand in [ C3 ] the the place of nature to another , and imitation , PREFACE . 37.
... Those whom their fame invites to the fame ftudies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to ftand in [ C3 ] the the place of nature to another , and imitation , PREFACE . 37.
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... ftand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of thefe alterations are only the ...
... ftand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of thefe alterations are only the ...
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... ftand ; for the inconftancy of the copies is fuch , as that fome liber- ties may be eafily permitted . But this practice I have not fuffered to proceed far , having restored the pri- mitive diction wherever it could for any reafon be ...
... ftand ; for the inconftancy of the copies is fuch , as that fome liber- ties may be eafily permitted . But this practice I have not fuffered to proceed far , having restored the pri- mitive diction wherever it could for any reafon be ...
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