On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... reading of the folio covenant , does not fall in with the rhythm of the line . I have little doubt that Shakespeare wrote compact , which he had employed a few lines above in speaking of the same agreement . There could be no reason why ...
... reading of the folio covenant , does not fall in with the rhythm of the line . I have little doubt that Shakespeare wrote compact , which he had employed a few lines above in speaking of the same agreement . There could be no reason why ...
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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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... 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 con- Iclude ... reading of the quarto 1604 , and HAMLET . 5.
... 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 con- Iclude ... reading of the quarto 1604 , and HAMLET . 5.
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... reading would be attained , and one more likely to be genuine , by the change of a single letter in the word star . Substitute o for t and you have : Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy soar . It is not to be concealed , however , that ...
... reading would be attained , and one more likely to be genuine , by the change of a single letter in the word star . Substitute o for t and you have : Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy soar . It is not to be concealed , however , that ...
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... reading . There is a similar blunder , which will be found noticed under the head " Cymbeline , " where the shrine of Venus is absurdly substituted in the current text for the shrinking Venus . Of and ing seem , unaccountably enough ...
... reading . There is a similar blunder , which will be found noticed under the head " Cymbeline , " where the shrine of Venus is absurdly substituted in the current text for the shrinking Venus . Of and ing seem , unaccountably enough ...
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