The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... perhaps , ought not to be placed in this remark , as a succession of limners now unknown might have pursued their art in England from the time of Hans Holbein to that of Queen Elizabeth . Philip Jones of Barnard's inn , the auctioneer ...
... perhaps , ought not to be placed in this remark , as a succession of limners now unknown might have pursued their art in England from the time of Hans Holbein to that of Queen Elizabeth . Philip Jones of Barnard's inn , the auctioneer ...
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... perhaps , because he thought a stage garb did not stand so cha- racteristically before a volume of poems as before a collection of plays ; and yet it must be confessed , that this change might have been introduced for no other reason ...
... perhaps , because he thought a stage garb did not stand so cha- racteristically before a volume of poems as before a collection of plays ; and yet it must be confessed , that this change might have been introduced for no other reason ...
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... perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are in- debted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our au- thor's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these very dramas be solely ...
... perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are in- debted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our au- thor's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these very dramas be solely ...
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... perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his editors a material difference should subsist . The former wish to meet with as few difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because they afford ...
... perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his editors a material difference should subsist . The former wish to meet with as few difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because they afford ...
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... perhaps a reluctance or inability to decide be . tween contradictory sentiments , have also occasioned the appear- ance of more annotations than were absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requisite that our author , like a Dauphin ...
... perhaps a reluctance or inability to decide be . tween contradictory sentiments , have also occasioned the appear- ance of more annotations than were absolutely wanted , unless it be thought requisite that our author , like a Dauphin ...
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