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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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ancient answer appears Banquo believe better blood BOSWELL called comes common death desire DUKE Duncan edit editors Enter Exit expression eyes face fear folio fool fortune give given hand hath head hear heart hold Holinshed honour instance JOHNSON keep kind King Henry lady live look lord MACB Macbeth Malcolm MALONE manner matter means mind murder nature never night noble observed occurs old copy once original passage perhaps person play present probably Queen reason ROSSE scene Scotland seems selfe sense Shakspeare signifies Sir Toby sister sleep song speak speech spirit stand STEEVENS suppose sure sweet tell thee thing thou thought translation true WARBURTON WITCH woman word
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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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