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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... perhaps to continue with it fome time . Horatio , as it appears , watches out of curiofity . But in A & t . II . fc . i . to Hamlet's question , - " Hold you the watch to - night ? " Horatio , Marcellus , and Ber- nardo , all answer ...
... perhaps to continue with it fome time . Horatio , as it appears , watches out of curiofity . But in A & t . II . fc . i . to Hamlet's question , - " Hold you the watch to - night ? " Horatio , Marcellus , and Ber- nardo , all answer ...
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... perhaps of our poet's coinage . A mart fignifying a great fair or market , he would not have fcrupled to have written - tò mart , in the fenfe of to make a bargain . In the preceding speech we find mart used for bargain or purchase ...
... perhaps of our poet's coinage . A mart fignifying a great fair or market , he would not have fcrupled to have written - tò mart , in the fenfe of to make a bargain . In the preceding speech we find mart used for bargain or purchase ...
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... Perhaps , therefore , many of its abfurdities , as well as beauties , arofe from the quantity added after it was firft written . Our poet might have been more attentive to the amplification than the coherence of his fable . The degree ...
... Perhaps , therefore , many of its abfurdities , as well as beauties , arofe from the quantity added after it was firft written . Our poet might have been more attentive to the amplification than the coherence of his fable . The degree ...
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... perhaps contained a defcription of fiery war- riors fighting on the clouds , or of brands burning bright beneath the fiars . The 15th Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes , tranflated by Gold- ing , in which an account is given of the prodigies ...
... perhaps contained a defcription of fiery war- riors fighting on the clouds , or of brands burning bright beneath the fiars . The 15th Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes , tranflated by Gold- ing , in which an account is given of the prodigies ...
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... 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 , addreffed to the Earl of Oxenforde , a book of which I know not ...
... 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 , addreffed to the Earl of Oxenforde , a book of which I know not ...
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PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Isaac 1742-1807 Reed,Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson No preview available - 2016 |
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