The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volumes 1-2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 21
... in my opinion , points out the title - Madam , ( which is wanting in the old copy , ) as a proper cure for the present defect in metre . STEEVENS . Made friends of them , jointing their force ' gainst SC . II . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 21.
... in my opinion , points out the title - Madam , ( which is wanting in the old copy , ) as a proper cure for the present defect in metre . STEEVENS . Made friends of them , jointing their force ' gainst SC . II . ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . 21.
Page 33
... metre might be sup- plied , by reading : Where is he now ? So , in Macbeth : " The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ? " STEEVENS . 1 without I did not send you ; ] You must go as if you came my order or knowledge . JOHNSON ...
... metre might be sup- plied , by reading : Where is he now ? So , in Macbeth : " The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ? " STEEVENS . 1 without I did not send you ; ] You must go as if you came my order or knowledge . JOHNSON ...
Page 38
... metre , I have not scrupled to insert the adverb - Now , on the authority of the following pas- sage in King John , as well as on that of many others in the different pieces of our author : " Now , by the sky that hangs above our heads ...
... metre , I have not scrupled to insert the adverb - Now , on the authority of the following pas- sage in King John , as well as on that of many others in the different pieces of our author : " Now , by the sky that hangs above our heads ...
Page 43
... metre in the first of these lines induces me to suppose the second originally and elliptically stood thus : Or vouchsaf'd think he had partners & c . So , in Cymbeline , Act II . sc . ii : " Will force him think I have pick'd the lock ...
... metre in the first of these lines induces me to suppose the second originally and elliptically stood thus : Or vouchsaf'd think he had partners & c . So , in Cymbeline , Act II . sc . ii : " Will force him think I have pick'd the lock ...
Page 50
... metre induces me to believe that some word has been inadvertently omitted . Perhaps our author wrote : Drive him to Rome disgrac'd : ' Tis time we twain & c . So , in Act III . sc . xi : 66 So she " From Egypt drive her all - disgraced ...
... metre induces me to believe that some word has been inadvertently omitted . Perhaps our author wrote : Drive him to Rome disgrac'd : ' Tis time we twain & c . So , in Act III . sc . xi : 66 So she " From Egypt drive her all - disgraced ...
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