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Thus , in the time of Shakspeare , was the doctrine of witchcraft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it became not only unpolite , but criminal , to doubt it ; and as prodigies are always seen in proportion as they are ...
Thus , in the time of Shakspeare , was the doctrine of witchcraft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it became not only unpolite , but criminal , to doubt it ; and as prodigies are always seen in proportion as they are ...
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When the hurlyburly's done ' , When the battle's lost and won : 2 ' -hurlyburly's- ] However mean this word may seem to modern ears , it came recommended to Shakspeare by the authority of Henry Peacham , who , in the year 1577 ...
When the hurlyburly's done ' , When the battle's lost and won : 2 ' -hurlyburly's- ] However mean this word may seem to modern ears , it came recommended to Shakspeare by the authority of Henry Peacham , who , in the year 1577 ...
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It was convenient for Shakspeare's introductory scene , that his first Witch should appear uninstructed in her mission . Had she not required information , the audience must have remained ignorant of what it was necessary for them to ...
It was convenient for Shakspeare's introductory scene , that his first Witch should appear uninstructed in her mission . Had she not required information , the audience must have remained ignorant of what it was necessary for them to ...
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8 This is the SERGEANT , ] Holinshed is the best interpreter of Shakspeare in his historical plays ; for he not only takes his facts from him , but often his very words and expressions . That historian , in his account of Macdowald's ...
8 This is the SERGEANT , ] Holinshed is the best interpreter of Shakspeare in his historical plays ; for he not only takes his facts from him , but often his very words and expressions . That historian , in his account of Macdowald's ...
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... for supplied from or with , was a kind of Grecism of Shakspeare's expression ; or whether of be a corruption of the editors , who took Kernes and Gallowglasses , which were only light and heavy armed foot , to be the names of two of ...
... for supplied from or with , was a kind of Grecism of Shakspeare's expression ; or whether of be a corruption of the editors , who took Kernes and Gallowglasses , which were only light and heavy armed foot , to be the names of two of ...
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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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