| William Shakespeare - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...is not sufficient that his defects are trifling in comparison with writers who are highly defective. It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...evening in the country, than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle. My object isto enable him to do so without incurring the danger... | |
| 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 818
...wish, (.lays he) and has been my ptudy, to exclude from this publication whatever is unfit to be rcud aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies. I can hardly imagine a more pleasing occupation Cor a winter's evening in ilie country, than for a i..ili T to read one of Shak«peare°s plays to... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...with propriety be read aloud in a family." His object is thus stated in a short preface to the work. " It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...evening in the country, than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle. My object is to enable him to do so," without incurring the... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...is not sufficient that his defects are trifling in comparison with writers who are highly defective. It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...from this publication whatever is unfit to be read But though many erasures have for this purpose been made in the writings of Shakspeare in the present... | |
| 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...is not sufficient that his defects are trifling in comparison with writers who are highly defective. It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...evening in the country, than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle. My object is to enable him to do so without incurring the... | |
| 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...with propriety be read aloud in a family.' His object is thus stated in a short preface to the work. ' It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...evening in the country, than for a father to read one of Shakspeare's plays to his family circle, My object is to enable him to do so, without incurring the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 1008
...not sufficient that hi» defects are trifling in comparison with writers who are highly defective. i 溴 Shakspeare's plays to his family circle. My object is to enable him to do so without incurring the... | |
| Morris Leopold Ernst, William Seagle - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...entered finally into every Victorian home. "It certainly has been my wish," he wrote in the Preface, "and it has been my study to exclude from this publication...read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies." He was the first of the expurgators. Yet later in Victorianism, there often were sensitive souls who... | |
| Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...society. 4. In The Family Shakespeare, first published in 1818, the Reverend Bowdler explains his aim as: "it certainly is my wish, and it has been my study,...read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies" (x). 5. A case could be made for twentieth-century filmed versions of Shakespeare. While Kurosawa uses... | |
| Ian Ousby - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...1754-1825 Editor. His version of SHAKESPEARE, The Family Shakespeare (1818), cut the text by omitting 'whatever is unfit to be read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies' and so gave rise to the term 'to bowdlerize'. He also prepared an edition of GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL... | |
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