The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 12J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... whole of it is here reprinted . I shall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents , when I add— · prosunt singula , juncta juvant . STEEVENS . PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION , 1767 . THE author Though our commentaries ...
... whole of it is here reprinted . I shall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents , when I add— · prosunt singula , juncta juvant . STEEVENS . PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION , 1767 . THE author Though our commentaries ...
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... whole building falls in course : Nothing hath been , or can be , pointed out , which is not easily re- moved ; or rather which was not virtually removed before a very little analogy will do the business . I shall therefore have no ...
... whole building falls in course : Nothing hath been , or can be , pointed out , which is not easily re- moved ; or rather which was not virtually removed before a very little analogy will do the business . I shall therefore have no ...
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... whole , I may consider myself as the pioneer of the commentators : I have removed a deal of learned rubbish , and pointed out to them Shakspeare's track in the ever- pleasing paths of nature . This was necessarily a previous inquiry ...
... whole , I may consider myself as the pioneer of the commentators : I have removed a deal of learned rubbish , and pointed out to them Shakspeare's track in the ever- pleasing paths of nature . This was necessarily a previous inquiry ...
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... whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate . ” Suckling opposed his easier strain to the sweat of the learned Jonson . Denham assures us ...
... whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate . ” Suckling opposed his easier strain to the sweat of the learned Jonson . Denham assures us ...
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... whole week . ' This appears very probable ; and a pleasant proof it is of the general learning of the times , and of Shakspeare in particular . I wonder , he did not corroborate it with an extract from her injunctions to her clergy ...
... whole week . ' This appears very probable ; and a pleasant proof it is of the general learning of the times , and of Shakspeare in particular . I wonder , he did not corroborate it with an extract from her injunctions to her clergy ...
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