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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... believe , no more than a cant expression , It is used , however , on a serious occafion in Pericles : " Take in your arms this piece of your dead queen . " STEEVENS , 7 Hor . What , & c . ] Thus the quarto , 1604. STEEVENS . These words ...
... believe , no more than a cant expression , It is used , however , on a serious occafion in Pericles : " Take in your arms this piece of your dead queen . " STEEVENS , 7 Hor . What , & c . ] Thus the quarto , 1604. STEEVENS . These words ...
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... believe , Without the fenfible and true avouch Of mine own eyes . In like manner the honeft Butler in Mr. Addifon's Drummer , recommends the Steward to speak Latin to the Ghost in that play . REED .: 3 it harrows me & c . ] To harrow is ...
... believe , Without the fenfible and true avouch Of mine own eyes . In like manner the honeft Butler in Mr. Addifon's Drummer , recommends the Steward to speak Latin to the Ghost in that play . REED .: 3 it harrows me & c . ] To harrow is ...
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... believe , to Shark up means to pick up without diftinction , as the Shark - fith collects his prey . The quartos read lawless instead of landlefs . STEEVENS . 7 That hath a ftomach in't : ] Stomach , in the time of our author , was used ...
... believe , to Shark up means to pick up without diftinction , as the Shark - fith collects his prey . The quartos read lawless instead of landlefs . STEEVENS . 7 That hath a ftomach in't : ] Stomach , in the time of our author , was used ...
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... believe that As ftars in that which precedes , is a corruption . Perhaps Shakspeare wrote : Aftres with trains of fire , and dews of blood Difafterous dimm'd the fun . The word aftre is ufed in an old collection of poems entitled Diana ...
... believe that As ftars in that which precedes , is a corruption . Perhaps Shakspeare wrote : Aftres with trains of fire , and dews of blood Difafterous dimm'd the fun . The word aftre is ufed in an old collection of poems entitled Diana ...
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... believe that fierce fignifies confpicuous , glaring . It is used in a fomewhat fimilar fenfe in Timon of Athens : " O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings ! " Again , in King Henry VIII . we have " fierce vanities . " STEEVENS ...
... believe that fierce fignifies confpicuous , glaring . It is used in a fomewhat fimilar fenfe in Timon of Athens : " O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings ! " Again , in King Henry VIII . we have " fierce vanities . " STEEVENS ...
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