Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... ftand unauthorized , and contented themfelves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
... ftand unauthorized , and contented themfelves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
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... ftand ; for the inconftancy of the copies is fuch , as that fome liber- ties may be easily permitted . But this practice I have not fuffered to proceed far , having restored the pri- mitive diction wherever it could for any reafon be ...
... ftand ; for the inconftancy of the copies is fuch , as that fome liber- ties may be easily permitted . But this practice I have not fuffered to proceed far , having restored the pri- mitive diction wherever it could for any reafon be ...
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... ftand for your priviledges , we know to reade , and cenfure . Doe fo , but buy it firft . That doth beft . commend a booke , the fta- tioner fayes . Then , how odde foever your braines be , or your wifdomes , make your licence the fame ...
... ftand for your priviledges , we know to reade , and cenfure . Doe fo , but buy it firft . That doth beft . commend a booke , the fta- tioner fayes . Then , how odde foever your braines be , or your wifdomes , make your licence the fame ...
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... ftand the teft of the fe- verest judgment ; and strokes as carelefly hit off , to the level of the more ordinary capacities : fome de- This is Mr. Theobald's preface to his fecond edition in 1740 , and was a good deal curtailed by ...
... ftand the teft of the fe- verest judgment ; and strokes as carelefly hit off , to the level of the more ordinary capacities : fome de- This is Mr. Theobald's preface to his fecond edition in 1740 , and was a good deal curtailed by ...
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... ftand as a mark of ridicule to ftigmatize his malice . It is faid , our author fpent fome years before his death , in ease , retirement , and the converfation of his friends , at his native Stratford . I could never pick up any certain ...
... ftand as a mark of ridicule to ftigmatize his malice . It is faid , our author fpent fome years before his death , in ease , retirement , and the converfation of his friends , at his native Stratford . I could never pick up any certain ...
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