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From the incidents , however , with which Hector Boece has diversified the legend of Macbeth , our poet derived greater advantages than he could have found in the original story , as related by Wyntown . The 18th Chapter of his Cronykil ...
From the incidents , however , with which Hector Boece has diversified the legend of Macbeth , our poet derived greater advantages than he could have found in the original story , as related by Wyntown . The 18th Chapter of his Cronykil ...
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... to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking of a storm ? " MALONE . The phrase , I believe , is sufficiently common . Thus Dryden , in All for Love , & c .
... to have been the word omitted in the original copy . It agrees with thunders ; -but who ever talked of the breaking of a storm ? " MALONE . The phrase , I believe , is sufficiently common . Thus Dryden , in All for Love , & c .
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The original Saxon verb has not been preserved in any other way ; but the glossaries supply ryne for running ; and , in the old Islandic , runka signifies to agitate , to move . DOUCE . The chief cooks in noblemen's families , colleges ...
The original Saxon verb has not been preserved in any other way ; but the glossaries supply ryne for running ; and , in the old Islandic , runka signifies to agitate , to move . DOUCE . The chief cooks in noblemen's families , colleges ...
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But in Holinshed the relation runs thus , conformably to the Latin original : " The first of them spake and said , All haile Mackbeth , thane of Glammis ( for he had latelie entered into that dignitie and office by the death of his ...
But in Holinshed the relation runs thus , conformably to the Latin original : " The first of them spake and said , All haile Mackbeth , thane of Glammis ( for he had latelie entered into that dignitie and office by the death of his ...
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In the original copy we have here indeed also - Bell rings , as a marginal direction ; but this was inserted , I imagine , from the players misconceiving what Shakspeare had in truth set down in his copy as a dramatick direction to the ...
In the original copy we have here indeed also - Bell rings , as a marginal direction ; but this was inserted , I imagine , from the players misconceiving what Shakspeare had in truth set down in his copy as a dramatick direction to the ...
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