 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...both as to size, neatness, and price, are every thing that could be wished." — EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing is added to the...Expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. By T. BOWDLEH, Esq. FRS New Edition, in 1 large volume, 8vo. with 36 Illustrations... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 578 pages
...ooth as to size, neatness, and price, are every thing that could be wished."— EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing is added to the...Expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. By T. BOWDLER, Esq. FRS New Edition, in 1 large volume, Hvo. with 36 Illustrations... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1838 - 542 pages
...PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, AND CO. 27 SHAKSPEARE, BY BOVDLER. THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing ii added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions...cannot with propriety be readaloud. ByT. BOWDLKR, Esq. FRS Seventh Kdition. One large vol. 8vo. with 36 Illustrations after Srairke, &c. 30s. cloth ;... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1886 - 544 pages
...prepared for Home and School Use by THOMAS BOWDLER, FRS In this Edition nothing whatever is ..•!.•: to the Original Text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. ENTIRELY NEW VOLUME OF COOK'S "BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES." ORIENT. With Preludes... | |
 | American literature - 1890 - 1066 pages
...before the publication (in 1818) of " The Family Shakespeare," in which, to quote his own words, " nothing is added to the original text : but those...expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Whatever may be said by book-lovers and Shakespearian critics regarding the... | |
 | William Harrison De Puy, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 636 pages
...Swansea, where he died Feb. 24, 1825. In 1818 Bowdler published " The Family Shakespeare, in 10 volumes, in which nothing is added to the original text; but...expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The work had a large sale, and was long popular, spite of the ridicule it... | |
 | Literature - 1891 - 524 pages
...entry is taken from an English bookseller's catalogue: BOWDI.ER. — Family Shakespeare in one volume, in which nothing is added to the original text but those words and expressions which cannot, with propriety, be read aloud in a family. The words, "are omitted," which, in the title... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1891 - 558 pages
...nub iîlnnbcrs. From an English bookseller's catalog. BOWDLER. — Family Shakespeare in one volume, in which nothing is added to the original text but those words and expressions which cannot, with propriety, be read aloud in a family. The words " are omitted," which in the title... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 1172 pages
...General Villettes, Ac., 1815, 8vo. Liberty, Civil and Religious, 1816, 8vo. Tbe Family | Shakopcare ; in which nothing is added to the original Text ; but...Expressions are omitted which cannot with Propriety be read aloud in a Family, Lon., 8 vols. 8vo, £4 I4«. <:,/..: ami 10 vols. r. 18mo, £3 3«. e arx>... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1886 - 488 pages
...Shakespeare,' the work by which he is best known. Its title ran : ' The Family Shakespeare in ten volumes ; in which nothing is added to the original text ; but...expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.' In the preface he writes of Shakespeare's language : ' Many words and expressions... | |
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The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. 
