Read full poem →Westminster Abbey. Pope's epitaph for his tomb was first published in
the quarto edition of Pope's works in 1735--Johnson, in his discussion
of Pope's epitaphs ('Lives of the Poets'), devotes a couple of pages of
Dictionary Entry
A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
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. quartovolumes quartovolume quartoedition quartopages quartoeditions quartoquarto firstquarto small
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Poetry examples for “quarto”
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Read full poem →of the two volumes of poetry, and the two of prose, are merely the
quarto text portioned out into longer pages, without a single leaf being
reprinted. The trifling variations from the quartos were introduced when
Read full poem →* Both pieces are attributed to " Andrew " in a quarto
pamphlet of 1678 called " A Letter from Amsterdam to a
Read full poem →Shortlj will be published, in one Quarto Volume, beantifally printed^
imd illuitrated bj upwards of 100 wood>cuts of Arms,
Read full poem →The Satires appeared in 1689, in several quarto
pamphlets.
Read full poem →^ Put me* on th* wild island.] I have given these lines as I think we ought to read them,
but very different from what are printed in this edition. J'our of the old quarto's, the folio^
and the late octavo read, *'
Read full poem →one of twelve syllables remain so near it ; and therefore without authority of any prior edition,
discarded the epithet intirely from the text, and adopted the reading of the first quarto in the
former passage.
Read full poem →Seward speaks of the first quarto of the Woman-Hater ; the first quarto he never saw :
He says, it was published several years after the death o^ both authors \ it was published in the
Read full poem →fewer than seventeen plays more than were in the former, which we have
taken the pains and care to collect, and print out of quarto in this volume,
which for distinction sake are marked with a star in the catalogue of them
Read full poem →have more of J(»nson's manner than any play I had before met with, which I mentioned at
note 32 on tliat play, when deceived as Langbane had been by the first quarto Cpublished
several years after the death of both the authors) I verily thougnt that it had been Fletcher's