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Page xi
In plainer terms , that the vitiations * It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio
we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or seventeen of our author's plays .
True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these ...
In plainer terms , that the vitiations * It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio
we are indebted for the only copies of fixteen or seventeen of our author's plays .
True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less corrupted editions of these ...
Page xv
It is unlucky for him , perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his
editors a material difference should subfift . The former wish to meet with as few
difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because
they ...
It is unlucky for him , perhaps , that between the interest of his readers and his
editors a material difference should subfift . The former wish to meet with as few
difficulties as possible , while the latter are tempted to seek them out , because
they ...
Page xix
Indulgence to the remarks of others , as well as partiality to our own ; an ambition
in each little Hercules to set up pillars , ascertaining how far he had travelled
through the dreary wilds of black letter ; and perhaps a reluctance or inability to ...
Indulgence to the remarks of others , as well as partiality to our own ; an ambition
in each little Hercules to set up pillars , ascertaining how far he had travelled
through the dreary wilds of black letter ; and perhaps a reluctance or inability to ...
Page xxii
The following conjectural account of the publication of this second folio ( about
which no certainty can be obtained ( perhaps is not very , remote from truth .
When the predeceffor of it appeared , some intelligent friend or admirer of
Shakspeare ...
The following conjectural account of the publication of this second folio ( about
which no certainty can be obtained ( perhaps is not very , remote from truth .
When the predeceffor of it appeared , some intelligent friend or admirer of
Shakspeare ...
Page xxiii
... imperfectly deciphered , and sometimes wholly misunderstood . Mr. Malone ,
indeed , frequently points his artillery at a personage whom we cannot help
regarding as a phantom ; we mean the Editor of the second folio ; for perhaps ...
... imperfectly deciphered , and sometimes wholly misunderstood . Mr. Malone ,
indeed , frequently points his artillery at a personage whom we cannot help
regarding as a phantom ; we mean the Editor of the second folio ; for perhaps ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson (écrivain) |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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