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... remarks on his former edition and on the performances of his Ms. Corrector . He has hunted through many volumes of early English dramatists which I edited at different periods of my life ( some of them dated as far back as 1828 ) ; and ...
... remarks on his former edition and on the performances of his Ms. Corrector . He has hunted through many volumes of early English dramatists which I edited at different periods of my life ( some of them dated as far back as 1828 ) ; and ...
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... remarks on Mr. Singer's note upon the line in King John , act v . sc . 4 , " Unthread the rude eye of rebellion , " returns ( p . xvii . ) to me : " Mr. Dyce does not attempt to say one word about the old corrupt text of ' unthread the ...
... remarks on Mr. Singer's note upon the line in King John , act v . sc . 4 , " Unthread the rude eye of rebellion , " returns ( p . xvii . ) to me : " Mr. Dyce does not attempt to say one word about the old corrupt text of ' unthread the ...
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... remark- able , that in the folio , 1623 , thread , which occurs many times , is invariably spelt thred , whilst tread is always exhibited in its present form . " 66 P. xix . , note . " In ' The Taming of the Shrew , ' A. iii . sc . 2 ...
... remark- able , that in the folio , 1623 , thread , which occurs many times , is invariably spelt thred , whilst tread is always exhibited in its present form . " 66 P. xix . , note . " In ' The Taming of the Shrew , ' A. iii . sc . 2 ...
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... remark is to be explained , I suppose , by my having quoted in my Shakespeare , ad l . , the note of Steevens concerning the great height to which broom sometimes grows ; a note which ought to have deterred Mr. Collier from altering the ...
... remark is to be explained , I suppose , by my having quoted in my Shakespeare , ad l . , the note of Steevens concerning the great height to which broom sometimes grows ; a note which ought to have deterred Mr. Collier from altering the ...
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... remarks on that alteration ; 66 Exactly the same misprint has been allowed to remain in Webster's ' Appius and Virginia , ' A. i . sc . 3 ( edit . Dyce , ii . 153 ) , where Claudius ought to say , ' it fits not That any petty follower ...
... remarks on that alteration ; 66 Exactly the same misprint has been allowed to remain in Webster's ' Appius and Virginia , ' A. i . sc . 3 ( edit . Dyce , ii . 153 ) , where Claudius ought to say , ' it fits not That any petty follower ...
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