The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 10J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 12
... Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . The insertion , however , seems to be injudicious . To meet with Macbeth was the final drift of all the Witches in going to the heath , and not the particular ...
... Pope , and , after him , other editors : There I go to meet Macbeth . The insertion , however , seems to be injudicious . To meet with Macbeth was the final drift of all the Witches in going to the heath , and not the particular ...
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... Pope , who introduced the epi- thet long , to assist the metre , and reads- Doubtful long it stood , has thereby injured the sense . If the comparison was meant to coincide in all circumstances , the struggle could not be long . I read ...
... Pope , who introduced the epi- thet long , to assist the metre , and reads- Doubtful long it stood , has thereby injured the sense . If the comparison was meant to coincide in all circumstances , the struggle could not be long . I read ...
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... Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our author's plays in which he has not used which for who . So , in The Winter's Tale : " the old ...
... Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our author's plays in which he has not used which for who . So , in The Winter's Tale : " the old ...
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... Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the second folio , is very unlikely to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking ...
... Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the second folio , is very unlikely to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking ...
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... POPE . In one of the folio editions the reading is - Anoint thee , in a sense very consistent with the common account of witches , who are related to perform many supernatural acts , by the means of unguents , and particularly to fly ...
... POPE . In one of the folio editions the reading is - Anoint thee , in a sense very consistent with the common account of witches , who are related to perform many supernatural acts , by the means of unguents , and particularly to fly ...
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All's ancient Arthur Banquo BAST Bastard Ben Jonson blood breath called castle Cawdor CONST Coriolanus crown Cymbeline death deed doth Duncan edit emendation England Enter Exeunt expression eyes father Faulconbridge fear folio following passage France give hand hast hath heart heaven Hecate Henry VI Holinshed honour Hubert Iliad JOHNSON Julius Cęsar King Henry King Henry IV King John King Richard Kyng Lady Macbeth lord MACB MACD Macduff Malcolm MALONE MASON means murder nature night noble observed old copy old play old reading peace perhaps Philip poet Pope present prince Queen Rape of Lucrece ROSSE sayd says scene Scotland seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies sleep speak speech spirit STEEVENS suppose Tale thane thee Theobald There's thine things thou art thought tragedy unto WARBURTON weird sisters Winter's Tale WITCH word žat