On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... phrase when he had so excellent a term before him , which he might repeat , not only without any violation of good taste , but with increase of effect . I am glad to find that Mr. Hunter supports the same emenda- tion , in his " New ...
... phrase when he had so excellent a term before him , which he might repeat , not only without any violation of good taste , but with increase of effect . I am glad to find that Mr. Hunter supports the same emenda- tion , in his " New ...
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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 . But it is the fitness of the phrase to the B 2 HAMLET . 3.
... 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 phrase to the B 2 HAMLET . 3.
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... phrase , As , Well , well , we know ; -or , We could an if we would ; —or , If we list to speak ; —or , There be , an if they might ; - Or such ambiguous giving out , to note That you know aught of me : -This not to do , swear ; So ...
... phrase , As , Well , well , we know ; -or , We could an if we would ; —or , If we list to speak ; —or , There be , an if they might ; - Or such ambiguous giving out , to note That you know aught of me : -This not to do , swear ; So ...
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... phrases , denote that you know aught of me . " If any reader go over the passage with these two small alterations , he will be sensible , if I mistake not , of the perspicuity and consistency which they impart to it , and will probably ...
... phrases , denote that you know aught of me . " If any reader go over the passage with these two small alterations , he will be sensible , if I mistake not , of the perspicuity and consistency which they impart to it , and will probably ...
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... phrases to be hereafter considered , an expression about the genuineness of which the commentators differ , but which they seem inclined to explain rather than to alter : " Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing , whose end ...
... phrases to be hereafter considered , an expression about the genuineness of which the commentators differ , but which they seem inclined to explain rather than to alter : " Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing , whose end ...
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