On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... alteration may seem great , I think , sufficient reasons for it . By the dram is meant , not a dose but a weight ; and the notion . conveyed is that a small quantity of evil weighs down the noble substance to its own infamy . We find a ...
... alteration may seem great , I think , sufficient reasons for it . By the dram is meant , not a dose but a weight ; and the notion . conveyed is that a small quantity of evil weighs down the noble substance to its own infamy . We find a ...
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... alterations are re- quired to restore the construction and clear the sense of the passage . It is thus given in the ... alteration gives meaning to the phrase as before , and indeed to the whole line : Swear , as before , never , so ...
... alterations are re- quired to restore the construction and clear the sense of the passage . It is thus given in the ... alteration gives meaning to the phrase as before , and indeed to the whole line : Swear , as before , never , so ...
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... alterations , he will be sensible , if I mistake not , of the perspicuity and consistency which they impart to it , and will probably con- Iclude with me that so it came from the clear- headed author . On looking into the editions of ...
... alterations , he will be sensible , if I mistake not , of the perspicuity and consistency which they impart to it , and will probably con- Iclude with me that so it came from the clear- headed author . On looking into the editions of ...
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... alterations , the passage becomes : " To hold as it were the mirror up to nature , to show virtue her own feature , sin her own image , and the visage and body of the time his form and posture . " I am quite aware that the very ...
... alterations , the passage becomes : " To hold as it were the mirror up to nature , to show virtue her own feature , sin her own image , and the visage and body of the time his form and posture . " I am quite aware that the very ...
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... alterations here suggested , the disputed passage would stand as follows : Thus has he and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on , only got the tune of the time , and out of the habit of encounter [ got ] a ...
... alterations here suggested , the disputed passage would stand as follows : Thus has he and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on , only got the tune of the time , and out of the habit of encounter [ got ] a ...
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