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JOHNSON . In the concluding paragraph of Dr. Johnson's admirable introduction to this play , he seems apprehensive that the fame of Shakspeare's magic may be endangered by modern ridicule . I shall not hesitate , however , to predict ...
JOHNSON . In the concluding paragraph of Dr. Johnson's admirable introduction to this play , he seems apprehensive that the fame of Shakspeare's magic may be endangered by modern ridicule . I shall not hesitate , however , to predict ...
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JOHNSON . This expression seems to have been proverbial . Spenser has it in the 4th book of The Fairy Queen : " Then fair grew foul , and foul grew fair in fight . " FARMER . 8 This is the SERGEANT , ] Holinshed is the best interpreter ...
JOHNSON . This expression seems to have been proverbial . Spenser has it in the 4th book of The Fairy Queen : " Then fair grew foul , and foul grew fair in fight . " FARMER . 8 This is the SERGEANT , ] Holinshed is the best interpreter ...
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JOHNSON . The word quarrel occurs in Holinshed's relation of this very fact , and may be regarded as a sufficient proof of its having been . the term here employed by Shakspeare : " Out of the western isles there came to Macdowald a ...
JOHNSON . The word quarrel occurs in Holinshed's relation of this very fact , and may be regarded as a sufficient proof of its having been . the term here employed by Shakspeare : " Out of the western isles there came to Macdowald a ...
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JOHNSON . 3 Our captains , Macbeth and Banquo ? Sold . cannot fail to observe , that some word , Yes ; ] The reader necessary to complete As sparrows , eagles ; or the hare , the SC . 11 . 21 MACBETH .
JOHNSON . 3 Our captains , Macbeth and Banquo ? Sold . cannot fail to observe , that some word , Yes ; ] The reader necessary to complete As sparrows , eagles ; or the hare , the SC . 11 . 21 MACBETH .
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JOHNSON . 39 Mr. M. Mason observes , that the meaning of Lenox is , " So should he look , who seems as if he had strange things to speak . ' The following passage in The Tempest seems to afford no unapt comment upon this : pr'ythee ...
JOHNSON . 39 Mr. M. Mason observes , that the meaning of Lenox is , " So should he look , who seems as if he had strange things to speak . ' The following passage in The Tempest seems to afford no unapt comment upon this : pr'ythee ...
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| Title | Twelfth-night ; Macbeth Volume 11 of The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, J., F., and C. Rivington (Firm) |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | James Boswell |
| Illustrated by | Edmond Malone |
| Contributor | J., F., and C. Rivington (Firm) |
| Publisher | F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Apr 2010 |
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