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Page ii
Had any portrait of him exifted , we may naturally suppose it must have belonged
to his family , who ( as Mark Antony says of a hair of Cæsar ) would have mention
d it within their wills , " Bequcathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue ; " and ...
Had any portrait of him exifted , we may naturally suppose it must have belonged
to his family , who ( as Mark Antony says of a hair of Cæsar ) would have mention
d it within their wills , " Bequcathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue ; " and ...
Page xxi
Though our adoptions have been slightly mentioned already , our fourth
impression of the Plays of Shakspeare must not issue into the world without
particular and ample acknowledgements of the benefit it has derived from the
labours of the ...
Though our adoptions have been slightly mentioned already , our fourth
impression of the Plays of Shakspeare must not issue into the world without
particular and ample acknowledgements of the benefit it has derived from the
labours of the ...
Page xxiii
The folio therefore of 1623 , corrected from one or both the authorities above
mentioned , we conceive to have been the basis of its fucceffor in 1632 . At the
same time , however , a fresh and abundant feries of errors and omissions was ...
The folio therefore of 1623 , corrected from one or both the authorities above
mentioned , we conceive to have been the basis of its fucceffor in 1632 . At the
same time , however , a fresh and abundant feries of errors and omissions was ...
Page xxvii
... Wives of Windsor , very judiciously restores the uncommoni word – ging , and
supports it by instances from The New Inn and The Alchemist , he forbears to
mention that such also is the reading of the second , though not of the first folio .
... Wives of Windsor , very judiciously restores the uncommoni word – ging , and
supports it by instances from The New Inn and The Alchemist , he forbears to
mention that such also is the reading of the second , though not of the first folio .
Page xxxi
They are not even mentioned here as a covert mode of attack , or as a “ note of
preparation " for future hoftilities . The office of " devising brave punishments ” for
faithless editors , is therefore strenuously declined , even though their guilt
should ...
They are not even mentioned here as a covert mode of attack , or as a “ note of
preparation " for future hoftilities . The office of " devising brave punishments ” for
faithless editors , is therefore strenuously declined , even though their guilt
should ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson (écrivain) |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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