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ON

SHAKSPEARE.

BY

H. N. HUDSON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION.

NEW YORK:

BAKER AND SCRIBNER,

36 PARK ROW AND 145 NASSAU STREET.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGLA

MONACENSIS.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

BAKER & SCRIBNER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

THOMAS B. SMITH, STEREOTYPER, 216 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y.

DEDICATION AND PREFACE

TO MR. RICHARD H. DANA.

MY DEAR SIR:

The manner in which you have looked upon my labours encourages the thought, that the appearance of your name in this place, as it will be a comfortable sight to me, will not be unacceptable to you; and if the sentiments that ought to prompt such an act are not here expressed, I not only know, but feel assured that you will know, it is not because they are not felt. Were the merit of these volumes as certain as the propriety of inscribing them to you is manifest, I might as well write my name here and stop: but I confess no little interest, that readers should not expect from me what I trust I am as far from pretending as from being able to give.

He who is always striving to utter himself, will of course be original enough: but he who wishes to teach, will first try to learn; and as, to do this, he will have to study the same objects, so, unless his eye be a good deal better or a good deal worse than others, he will be apt to see, think, and say very much the same things as have been seen, thought, and said before. Wherefore, you will, I doubt not,

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