On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... 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 . In a somewhat irregular and very long sentence , in B 2.
... 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 . In a somewhat irregular and very long sentence , in B 2.
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... old copies of " Hamlet " is spelt sinne , easily pervertible into scorne . After undergoing these three alterations , the passage becomes : " To hold as it were the mirror to nature , to show virtue her own feature , sin her own image ...
... old copies of " Hamlet " is spelt sinne , easily pervertible into scorne . After undergoing these three alterations , the passage becomes : " To hold as it were the mirror to nature , to show virtue her own feature , sin her own image ...
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... old copy had peace , and place was sub- stituted ( arbitrarily as far as we know ) by the editor of the second folio . To me , however , the substitute , although an improvement on the older reading , is exceedingly flat where some ...
... old copy had peace , and place was sub- stituted ( arbitrarily as far as we know ) by the editor of the second folio . To me , however , the substitute , although an improvement on the older reading , is exceedingly flat where some ...
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... old copies . The two last lines are stigmatised by Theobald as " a period of as stubborn nonsense as the editors have obtruded upon poor Shakespeare throughout his works . " He proposes to consider affects as a plural noun , not a ...
... old copies . The two last lines are stigmatised by Theobald as " a period of as stubborn nonsense as the editors have obtruded upon poor Shakespeare throughout his works . " He proposes to consider affects as a plural noun , not a ...
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... old one . Thus in Chaucer : 66 Alas , the day that I was borne ! Now is my prison werse than beforne ; Now is me ... old copies . Some editors put charge for change , be my for 144 THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE .
... old one . Thus in Chaucer : 66 Alas , the day that I was borne ! Now is my prison werse than beforne ; Now is me ... old copies . Some editors put charge for change , be my for 144 THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE .
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