The Works of Shakespear in Eight Volumes: The Genuine Text (Collated With All the Former Editions, and Then Corrected and Emended) Is Here Settled; ... Interpolations of the Two Last; With a Comme - Softcover

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His growing Eminence, however, required that he fhould be ufed with Ceremony: And he foon had his Appointment of an Editor in form. But the Bookfeller, whofe dealing was with Wits, hav ing learnt of them, I know not what filly Maxim, that none out a Poet jbould pra/'mne to meddle with a Poet, engaged the ingenious Mr. Rotor to um dertake this Employment A Wit indeed he was; but fo utterly unacquainted with the whole Buli nefs of Criticifm, that he did not even collate or confult the firfl: Editions of the Work he under took to publifh but contented himfelf with giving us a meagre Account of the Author's Life, inter? Larded with fome common-place Scraps from his Writings. The Truth is, Sbaéq/poar's Condition was yet but ill underflood. The Nonfenfe, now, by confent, received for his own, was held in a kind of Reverence for its Age and Author and thus it continued, till another great Poet broke the Charm by fhewing us, that'the higher we went, the lefs of it was {till to be found.

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