The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... stand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
... stand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
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... stand , not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been ...
... stand , not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been ...
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... Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain such authority , as to stand in [ C3 ] the the place of nature to another , and imitation , PREFACE .
... Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain such authority , as to stand in [ C3 ] the the place of nature to another , and imitation , PREFACE .
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... standing . The chief defire of him that comments an author , is to shew how much other commentators have corrupted and obfcured him . The opinions prevalent in one age , as truths above the reach of controversy , are confuted and ...
... standing . The chief defire of him that comments an author , is to shew how much other commentators have corrupted and obfcured him . The opinions prevalent in one age , as truths above the reach of controversy , are confuted and ...
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... stand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
... stand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
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