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Page 11
... putting the expression into the Scottish hag's mouth . The expression is to be found in a book published indeed long after Shakspeare's time , but containing probably many old saws , entitled , 3 WITCH . That will be ere the set of.
... putting the expression into the Scottish hag's mouth . The expression is to be found in a book published indeed long after Shakspeare's time , but containing probably many old saws , entitled , 3 WITCH . That will be ere the set of.
Page 15
This expression seems to have been proverbial . ... 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 .
This expression seems to have been proverbial . ... 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 .
Page 17
... 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 ...
Page 22
... with double cracks ; " but surely the great author will not gain much by an alteration which makes him say of a hero , that he " redoubles strokes with double cracks , " an expression not more loudly to be applauded , or more easily ...
... with double cracks ; " but surely the great author will not gain much by an alteration which makes him say of a hero , that he " redoubles strokes with double cracks , " an expression not more loudly to be applauded , or more easily ...
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The same expression occurs in All's Lost by Lust , 1633 , by Rowley : or is that thing , 66 " Which would supply the place of soul in thee , " Merely phantastical ? " 66 Shakspeare , however , took the word from Holinshed , who in his ...
The same expression occurs in All's Lost by Lust , 1633 , by Rowley : or is that thing , 66 " Which would supply the place of soul in thee , " Merely phantastical ? " 66 Shakspeare , however , took the word from Holinshed , who in his ...
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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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