The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... confidered as mif- placed . GEORGE STEEVENS was born at Poplar , in the county of Middlefex , in the year 1736. His father , a man of great re- fpectability , was engaged in a business connected with the Eaft India Company , by which he ...
... confidered as mif- placed . GEORGE STEEVENS was born at Poplar , in the county of Middlefex , in the year 1736. His father , a man of great re- fpectability , was engaged in a business connected with the Eaft India Company , by which he ...
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... confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in fome inftances thought too much crouded already , and therefore confined himfelf to the copy left to his care by his ...
... confidered himself at liberty to accept their favours . He was fearful of loading the page , which Mr. Steevens in fome inftances thought too much crouded already , and therefore confined himfelf to the copy left to his care by his ...
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... confidered as a tax on the reader's patience . It may be proper indeed to obferve , that the er- rors we have difcovered in our last edition are here . corrected ; and that fome explanations , & c . which feemed to be wanting , have ...
... confidered as a tax on the reader's patience . It may be proper indeed to obferve , that the er- rors we have difcovered in our last edition are here . corrected ; and that fome explanations , & c . which feemed to be wanting , have ...
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... confi- dered in fome degree as experimental ; for their cor- ruptions and obfcurities are ftill fo numerous , and the progress of fortunate conjecture fo tardy and uncertain , that our remote defcendants may be per- plexed by paffages ...
... confi- dered in fome degree as experimental ; for their cor- ruptions and obfcurities are ftill fo numerous , and the progress of fortunate conjecture fo tardy and uncertain , that our remote defcendants may be per- plexed by paffages ...
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... confidered , it is time , in- ftead of a timid and fervile adherence to ancient copies , when ( offending againft fenfe and metre ) they furnish no real help , that a future editor , well acquainted with the phrafeology of our author's ...
... confidered , it is time , in- ftead of a timid and fervile adherence to ancient copies , when ( offending againft fenfe and metre ) they furnish no real help , that a future editor , well acquainted with the phrafeology of our author's ...
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