The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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Page 135
... verse we make when we are writing prose ; we make such verse in common conversation . * I know not whether this praise is rigorously just . The dissyl- lable termination , which the critck rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be ...
... verse we make when we are writing prose ; we make such verse in common conversation . * I know not whether this praise is rigorously just . The dissyl- lable termination , which the critck rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be ...
Page 172
... verse , and verse as prose ; or , where rightly printed verse , that verse is not al- ways right divided and in all these pieces , the songs are in every particular still more corrupt than the other parts of them . These are the general ...
... verse , and verse as prose ; or , where rightly printed verse , that verse is not al- ways right divided and in all these pieces , the songs are in every particular still more corrupt than the other parts of them . These are the general ...
Page 186
... verse : this , though not so universal as their wrong pointing , is yet so extensive an error in the old copies ... verse as verse ; which , it is hop'd , is now done , with an accuracy that leaves no great room for any further ...
... verse : this , though not so universal as their wrong pointing , is yet so extensive an error in the old copies ... verse as verse ; which , it is hop'd , is now done , with an accuracy that leaves no great room for any further ...
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