A Revisal of Shakespear's Text: Wherein the Alterations Introduced Into it by the More Modern Editors and Critics, are Particularly Considered ...W. Johnston, 1765 - 573 pages |
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... ancient and authorized reading , unless they happen to be fupported by fuch convincing and undeniable evidence of their truth , as leaves no room for the leaft doubt or hefitation . He hath thought nothing , how little foever im ...
... ancient and authorized reading , unless they happen to be fupported by fuch convincing and undeniable evidence of their truth , as leaves no room for the leaft doubt or hefitation . He hath thought nothing , how little foever im ...
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... ancient reading correfponds with the impetuofity of the poet's ge- nius , the present with the timid regularity of the critical corrector . Mr. Theobald fubftitutes his own conjecture ; So fafely order'd that there is no foyle ...
... ancient reading correfponds with the impetuofity of the poet's ge- nius , the present with the timid regularity of the critical corrector . Mr. Theobald fubftitutes his own conjecture ; So fafely order'd that there is no foyle ...
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... Read agreeably to the old editions , Hearkens my brother's fuit . An anapæeft for an iambick is a common licence in pur tragick metre , and of which our ancient poets more especially have very frequently availed them- felves . felves ...
... Read agreeably to the old editions , Hearkens my brother's fuit . An anapæeft for an iambick is a common licence in pur tragick metre , and of which our ancient poets more especially have very frequently availed them- felves . felves ...
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... ancient reading , deck'd . To deck is com- monly interpreted to adorn , and even in this fenfe , the expreffion of decking the fea with tears may appear tolerable , fince however inconfiderable and trifling the prefent may be , a perfon ...
... ancient reading , deck'd . To deck is com- monly interpreted to adorn , and even in this fenfe , the expreffion of decking the fea with tears may appear tolerable , fince however inconfiderable and trifling the prefent may be , a perfon ...
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... ancient and authentick reading was , when thou didst not , favage , Know thy own meaning . The prefent reading is a mere conjecture of Mr. Warburton's , and , in order to introduce and re- commend it , he has endeavoured to caft a mift ...
... ancient and authentick reading was , when thou didst not , favage , Know thy own meaning . The prefent reading is a mere conjecture of Mr. Warburton's , and , in order to introduce and re- commend it , he has endeavoured to caft a mift ...
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Page i - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
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Page 392 - Shake/pears alluded, was not willing that his audience fhould be lefs knowing than himfelf, and has therefore weakened the author's fenfe by the intrufion of a remote and ufelefs image into a fpeech burfting from a man wholly poflefled with his own prefent condition, and therefore not at leifure to explain his own allufions to himfelf.