The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Volume 1 |
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Page xvi
... light , that he was content to purchase it , by the sacrifice of reafon , propriety and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was content to lose it . It will be thought strange , that , in ...
... light , that he was content to purchase it , by the sacrifice of reafon , propriety and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was content to lose it . It will be thought strange , that , in ...
Page xxxviii
... light of learning , but zealous for minute accuracy , and not negli- gent in pursuing it . He collated the ancient copies , and rectified many errors . A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been expected to do more , but what little ...
... light of learning , but zealous for minute accuracy , and not negli- gent in pursuing it . He collated the ancient copies , and rectified many errors . A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been expected to do more , but what little ...
Page xlv
... light hints , is not to be expected from any single scholiaft . All personal reflections , when names are fuppreffed , must be in a few years irrecoverably oblite- rated ; and customs , too minute to attract the notice of law , fuch as ...
... light hints , is not to be expected from any single scholiaft . All personal reflections , when names are fuppreffed , must be in a few years irrecoverably oblite- rated ; and customs , too minute to attract the notice of law , fuch as ...
Page xlix
... light can find its way ; nor would Huetius himself condemn me , as refufing the trouble of research , for the ambition of alteration . In this modeft industry I have not been unsuccessful . I have rescued many lines from the violations ...
... light can find its way ; nor would Huetius himself condemn me , as refufing the trouble of research , for the ambition of alteration . In this modeft industry I have not been unsuccessful . I have rescued many lines from the violations ...
Page lxxvi
... light very different from that disadvantageous one in which it now appears to us . This is the fate in which Shakespeare's writings lie at prefent ; for fince the abovementioned folio edition , all the reft have implicitly followed it ...
... light very different from that disadvantageous one in which it now appears to us . This is the fate in which Shakespeare's writings lie at prefent ; for fince the abovementioned folio edition , all the reft have implicitly followed it ...
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