The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... not improbable that Ben Jonson furnished the Dedica- tion and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Commen datory Verses prefixed to it . recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , 10 PREFACE TO.
... not improbable that Ben Jonson furnished the Dedica- tion and Introduction to the first folio , as well as the Commen datory Verses prefixed to it . recommended , by a more accurate and finished engraving , 10 PREFACE TO.
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... folio 1623 exhibited such a likeness of Shakspeare as satisfied the eye of his contemporary , Ben Jonson , who , on an occasion like this , would hardly have ventured to assert what it was in the power of many of his readers to ...
... folio 1623 exhibited such a likeness of Shakspeare as satisfied the eye of his contemporary , Ben Jonson , who , on an occasion like this , would hardly have ventured to assert what it was in the power of many of his readers to ...
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... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abominable an imitation of humanity " deserve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reversed copy by Marshall from its pre- decessor , with a ...
... folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abominable an imitation of humanity " deserve to be restored . The smaller head , prefixed to the poems in 1640 , is merely a reduced and reversed copy by Marshall from its pre- decessor , with a ...
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... folio . In nec instabili famâ superabere Delo . " He died September 8th , 1797 . Stat . Achill . I , 388 . It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are in- debted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our au ...
... folio . In nec instabili famâ superabere Delo . " He died September 8th , 1797 . Stat . Achill . I , 388 . It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are in- debted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our au ...
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... folio ; that we have sometimes followed the sug gestions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the decisions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwith- standing their choice of readings might have been ...
... folio ; that we have sometimes followed the sug gestions of a Warburton , a Johnson , a Farmer , or a Tyrwhitt , in preference to the decisions of a Hemings or a Condell , notwith- standing their choice of readings might have been ...
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