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Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays, from the Early
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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Comments, and Emendations upon the works of Macaulay, Hallam, and other living authors, we may possibly run a risk of offending those eminent men.
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In the passage from "The Taming of the Shrew," we see, what Mr. Collier himself notices in his "Notes and Emendations," that the prefix to the tinker's speeches, which in the folios is invariably _Beg.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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All the writing of even the early part of the seventeenth century was not done in the quaint, and, to us, strange and elaborate-seeming hand, sometimes called old chancery hand, specimens of which may be seen on the fac-simile published with Mr. Collier's "Notes and Emendations."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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And, indeed, to this ground of judgment Mr. Collier himself appeals, in his preface to the "Notes and Emendations," in no less emphatic terms than the following: -- "As Shakspeare was especially the poet of common life, so he was emphatically the poet of common sense; and to the verdict of common sense I am willing to submit all the more material alterations recommended on the authority before me."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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It is true, that, in the course of the controversy which the publication of his "Notes and Emendations" inevitably brought upon him,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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In MR. PAYNE COLLIER'S _Notes and Emendations_, p. 407., we are informed that the old corrector substitutes _blankness_ for _blanket_.
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Shortly afterwards Collier published all the 'essential' manuscript readings in a volume entitled _Notes and Emendations to the Plays of
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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A review of the text of Milton's Paradise Lost; in which the chief of Dr. Bentley's Emendations are consider'd; and several other emendations and observations are offer'd to the public.
Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890
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+ Emendations of passages and words of the Hebrew text which contain something objectionable in the eyes of the Samaritans,
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