On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... consideration that weigh in some of the old copies of Hamlet is spelt way . Thus the proposed emendation implies the perversion of the three words into oft way down , of a doubt , the present reading . But it is the fitness of the ...
... consideration that weigh in some of the old copies of Hamlet is spelt way . Thus the proposed emendation implies the perversion of the three words into oft way down , of a doubt , the present reading . But it is the fitness of the ...
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... considerations can scarcely be deemed out of place ) , had it not been for the connexion of the lines in which the mis - reading occurs , with the next point to be considered . In the last line but one , the word curb is an arbitrary ...
... considerations can scarcely be deemed out of place ) , had it not been for the connexion of the lines in which the mis - reading occurs , with the next point to be considered . In the last line but one , the word curb is an arbitrary ...
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... consideration without feeling much confidence in it : This push Will charter me ever or disseize me now . Where charter is of course to be compressed into a monosyllable , and disseize is the law term for dispossess . Charter occurs ...
... consideration without feeling much confidence in it : This push Will charter me ever or disseize me now . Where charter is of course to be compressed into a monosyllable , and disseize is the law term for dispossess . Charter occurs ...
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... consideration that to take advantage , as here used , is an idiomatic phrase with a meaning well adapted to the occasion ; which meaning neither got nor gone expresses , nor any other verb so far as I know in combination with advantage ...
... consideration that to take advantage , as here used , is an idiomatic phrase with a meaning well adapted to the occasion ; which meaning neither got nor gone expresses , nor any other verb so far as I know in combination with advantage ...
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... considerations it is plain we cannot positively assert that the passage is restored to its pristine form ; but we may , I think , safely conclude that the substantial meaning of the poet is re- covered , namely , that fortune , not four ...
... considerations it is plain we cannot positively assert that the passage is restored to its pristine form ; but we may , I think , safely conclude that the substantial meaning of the poet is re- covered , namely , that fortune , not four ...
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