The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 18J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... ancient . MALONE . Jump and just were fynonymous in the time of Shakspeare . Ben Jonfon fpeaks of verfes made on jump names , i . e . names that fuit exactly . Nafh fays " and jumpe imitating a verse in As in præfenti . " So , in ...
... ancient . MALONE . Jump and just were fynonymous in the time of Shakspeare . Ben Jonfon fpeaks of verfes made on jump names , i . e . names that fuit exactly . Nafh fays " and jumpe imitating a verse in As in præfenti . " So , in ...
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... ancient Statutes , p . 300 , having obferved that Shakspeare gives English manners to every country where his feene lies , infers from this paffage , that in the time even of Queen Elizabeth , fhipwrights as well as feamen were forced ...
... ancient Statutes , p . 300 , having obferved that Shakspeare gives English manners to every country where his feene lies , infers from this paffage , that in the time even of Queen Elizabeth , fhipwrights as well as feamen were forced ...
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... ancient ftage , it is as injudiciously contracted on the modern one . 2 STEEVENS . Well may it fort , ] The caufe and effect are proportionate and fuitable . 3 JOHNSON . the queftion of these wars . ] The theme or fubje & . So , in ...
... ancient ftage , it is as injudiciously contracted on the modern one . 2 STEEVENS . Well may it fort , ] The caufe and effect are proportionate and fuitable . 3 JOHNSON . the queftion of these wars . ] The theme or fubje & . So , in ...
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... ancient fuperftition . Philoftratus giving an account of the apparition of Achilles ' fhade to Apollonius Tyaneus , fays that it vanished with a little glimmer as foon as the cock crowed . Vit . Apol . iv . 16 . Faded has here its ...
... ancient fuperftition . Philoftratus giving an account of the apparition of Achilles ' fhade to Apollonius Tyaneus , fays that it vanished with a little glimmer as foon as the cock crowed . Vit . Apol . iv . 16 . Faded has here its ...
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... ancient proverbial phrafe- " To cry with one eye and laugh with the other , " buckram'd by our author for the fervice of tragedy . See Ray's Collection , edit . 1768 , p . 188. STEEVENS . Dropping in this line probably means depreffed ...
... ancient proverbial phrafe- " To cry with one eye and laugh with the other , " buckram'd by our author for the fervice of tragedy . See Ray's Collection , edit . 1768 , p . 188. STEEVENS . Dropping in this line probably means depreffed ...
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