The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 8 |
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But what the Oxford editor could not explain , he would amend , and reads : - and do aught a while . WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the signification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning ...
But what the Oxford editor could not explain , he would amend , and reads : - and do aught a while . WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the signification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning ...
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But , little respect is due to the anomalies of the play - house editors ; and of this comedy there is no quarto edition . STEEVENS . Mr. Pope and the subsequent editors read - he I am before ; more correctly , but without authority .
But , little respect is due to the anomalies of the play - house editors ; and of this comedy there is no quarto edition . STEEVENS . Mr. Pope and the subsequent editors read - he I am before ; more correctly , but without authority .
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Corrected by the editor of the second folio . I am not sure that the transposition is necessary . Our author might have used content as an adjective . MALONE . 9 ACT II . SCENE I. The Forest of Arden . SC . III . 39 AS YOU LIKE IT .
Corrected by the editor of the second folio . I am not sure that the transposition is necessary . Our author might have used content as an adjective . MALONE . 9 ACT II . SCENE I. The Forest of Arden . SC . III . 39 AS YOU LIKE IT .
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Corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . ... who appears to have been utterly ignorant of our author's phraseology and metre , reads The body of the country , & c . which has been followed by all the subsequent editors .
Corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . ... who appears to have been utterly ignorant of our author's phraseology and metre , reads The body of the country , & c . which has been followed by all the subsequent editors .
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Cor . rected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . * This is no place , ] Place here signifies a seat , a mansion , a residence . So , in the first Book of Samuel : “ Saul set him up a place , and is gone down to Gilgal .
Cor . rected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . * This is no place , ] Place here signifies a seat , a mansion , a residence . So , in the first Book of Samuel : “ Saul set him up a place , and is gone down to Gilgal .
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