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Page 59
... printed , with Theobald , " the stole of night ; " which seems , on the whole , the least objec- tionable reading . — The Ms. Corrector's " shade of night " is wretchedly feeble : to say , as Mr. Collier does , that it is a " familiar ...
... printed , with Theobald , " the stole of night ; " which seems , on the whole , the least objec- tionable reading . — The Ms. Corrector's " shade of night " is wretchedly feeble : to say , as Mr. Collier does , that it is a " familiar ...
Page 167
... printed truth when he ought to have printed ' death . ' Nothing can well be more intelligible and pertinent than ' death ' instead of truth : it was ' the flattering death of sleep , ' because Romeo had had such ' flattering ' dreams ...
... printed truth when he ought to have printed ' death . ' Nothing can well be more intelligible and pertinent than ' death ' instead of truth : it was ' the flattering death of sleep , ' because Romeo had had such ' flattering ' dreams ...
Page 207
... printed ho for ' how ' " were evidently right . ( See ante , p . 67. ) P. 242 , -act v . sc . 2 . 6 “ a grief that smites My very heart at root . ' Suites [ of the folio 1623 ] is altered to ' smites ' in the corr . fo . 1632 . We printed ...
... printed ho for ' how ' " were evidently right . ( See ante , p . 67. ) P. 242 , -act v . sc . 2 . 6 “ a grief that smites My very heart at root . ' Suites [ of the folio 1623 ] is altered to ' smites ' in the corr . fo . 1632 . We printed ...
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TROILUS AND CRESSIDA | 2 |
CORIOLANUS | 154 |
ROMEO AND JULIET | 162 |
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