Excerpt from Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists, Vol. 1 The fond hope to which I gave expression in the preface to the first Series that I should not be obliged, at some future day, again to withdraw (as I had done before) part of the conjectural emendations contained in that volume, has like many other hopes sadly deceived me and I now concur in the persuasion of Gottfried Hermann, my great teacher in textual criticism, that a true verbal critic must be no less ready to withdraw his conjectures than to make them. I now ...
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Excerpt from Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists, Vol. 1 The fond hope to which I gave expression in the preface to the first Series that I should not be obliged, at some future day, again to withdraw (as I had done before) part of the conjectural emendations contained in that volume, has like many other hopes sadly deceived me and I now concur in the persuasion of Gottfried Hermann, my great teacher in textual criticism, that a true verbal critic must be no less ready to withdraw his conjectures than to make them. I now firmly believe, that this is a drawback incident on all verbal criticism. The loss thus caused to the bulk of my book has been more than compensated by the addition of fresh matter, especially the notes on K. Richard II. And Othello. I must not fail to inform the reader that the designation of 'triple ending, ' has been substituted for 'trisyllabic feminine ending' which latter term I had borrowed from Mr, Fleay. 'triple ending' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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