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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... tell him , by the authority of Shakespeare , that he affumes , as an unquestionable principle , a pofition , which , while his breath is forming it into words , his understanding pronounces to be falfe . It is false , that any ...
... tell him , by the authority of Shakespeare , that he affumes , as an unquestionable principle , a pofition , which , while his breath is forming it into words , his understanding pronounces to be falfe . It is false , that any ...
Page cxxv
... tell me , that I fuffer myself to be wholly diverted from my purpose , by these matters lefs fuitable to my clerical profeffion . " Well , but fays a friend , why not " take fo candid an intimation in good part ? Withdraw “ yourself ...
... tell me , that I fuffer myself to be wholly diverted from my purpose , by these matters lefs fuitable to my clerical profeffion . " Well , but fays a friend , why not " take fo candid an intimation in good part ? Withdraw “ yourself ...
Page cxxxix
... tell us , of the state of those transcriptions , and of the faci- lity with which they were pen'd ? Let it then be granted , that these quartos are the poet's own copies , however they were come by ; haftily written at firft , and ...
... tell us , of the state of those transcriptions , and of the faci- lity with which they were pen'd ? Let it then be granted , that these quartos are the poet's own copies , however they were come by ; haftily written at firft , and ...
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... tell him - they may be quitted ; nor yet in those without notice . But it will be neceffary , that the general method of this edition should now be laid open ; that the publick may be put in a capa- city not only of comparing it with ...
... tell him - they may be quitted ; nor yet in those without notice . But it will be neceffary , that the general method of this edition should now be laid open ; that the publick may be put in a capa- city not only of comparing it with ...
Page clxvii
... tell us , —that “ Andronicus was firft printed in 1594 , quarto , " and acted by the earls of Derby , Pembroke , and Effex , " their fervants ; " and though the edition is not now to be met with , and he who mentions it be no exact ...
... tell us , —that “ Andronicus was firft printed in 1594 , quarto , " and acted by the earls of Derby , Pembroke , and Effex , " their fervants ; " and though the edition is not now to be met with , and he who mentions it be no exact ...
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