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Page 181
... Corrector in Mr Collier's Copy of the Folio , 1632. By the Rev. ALEXANDER DYCE . 1853 . A Few Remarks on the Emendation " Who smothers her with Painting , " in the Play of Cymbeline , discovered by Mr Collier in a Corrected Copy of the ...
... Corrector in Mr Collier's Copy of the Folio , 1632. By the Rev. ALEXANDER DYCE . 1853 . A Few Remarks on the Emendation " Who smothers her with Painting , " in the Play of Cymbeline , discovered by Mr Collier in a Corrected Copy of the ...
Page 184
... corrector of his folio , who was decidedly of a theatrical turn , and perhaps himself a manager , picked up his new readings from the mouths of the players themselves . But he has entirely failed to prove these improbable assertions ...
... corrector of his folio , who was decidedly of a theatrical turn , and perhaps himself a manager , picked up his new readings from the mouths of the players themselves . But he has entirely failed to prove these improbable assertions ...
Page 185
... corrector reads it , " They all upon the Mediterranean float " — strikes us as peculiarly un - Shakespe- rian . But this instance of the correc- tor's injudicious meddling is a small matter . The following passage deserves more careful ...
... corrector reads it , " They all upon the Mediterranean float " — strikes us as peculiarly un - Shakespe- rian . But this instance of the correc- tor's injudicious meddling is a small matter . The following passage deserves more careful ...
Page 186
... corrector proposes " with all power ; " and , at first sight , this correction looks like an improvement ; for how could the witch deal in the moon's command , if she had not got the moon's power ? On second thoughts , however , we ...
... corrector proposes " with all power ; " and , at first sight , this correction looks like an improvement ; for how could the witch deal in the moon's command , if she had not got the moon's power ? On second thoughts , however , we ...
Page 187
... corrector proposes " but , " and Mr Collier approves , remarking that but 66 seems more consistent with the course of the dialogue . " If , how- ever , we attend to the sequence of thought in this passage , it will be ap- parent that ...
... corrector proposes " but , " and Mr Collier approves , remarking that but 66 seems more consistent with the course of the dialogue . " If , how- ever , we attend to the sequence of thought in this passage , it will be ap- parent that ...
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Page 314 - And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad...
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Page 458 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
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Page 180 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
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