The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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... common suffrage . One cannot therefore wonder , if Shakspeare , having at his first appearance no other aim in his writings than to procure a subsistence , directed his endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then prevailed ...
... common suffrage . One cannot therefore wonder , if Shakspeare , having at his first appearance no other aim in his writings than to procure a subsistence , directed his endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then prevailed ...
Page 49
... common judgment to see , or critical sagacity to amend , what was manifestly faulty . Hence he generally exerts his conjec- tural talent in the wrong place : he tampers with what is found in the common books ; and , in the old ones ...
... common judgment to see , or critical sagacity to amend , what was manifestly faulty . Hence he generally exerts his conjec- tural talent in the wrong place : he tampers with what is found in the common books ; and , in the old ones ...
Page 52
... common , it was enough for him ; he regarded them as synonymous , and would use the one for the other without fear ... common thoughts ; just as his hard con- struction is to common expression . When they are not so , the explanation of ...
... common , it was enough for him ; he regarded them as synonymous , and would use the one for the other without fear ... common thoughts ; just as his hard con- struction is to common expression . When they are not so , the explanation of ...
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