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Though there was an interval of time between the rebellion of Macdowald and the DAUGHTER - ] More probably the sister . See note on The Cronykil of Andrew Wyntown , vol . ii . p . 475. STEEVENS . * the invasion of Sueno , our author has ...
Though there was an interval of time between the rebellion of Macdowald and the DAUGHTER - ] More probably the sister . See note on The Cronykil of Andrew Wyntown , vol . ii . p . 475. STEEVENS . * the invasion of Sueno , our author has ...
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... 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.
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The stage - direction of entrance , where the bleeding captain is mentioned , was probably the work of the player editors , and not of the poet . Sergeant , however , ( as the ingenious compiler of the Glossary to A. of Wyntown's ...
The stage - direction of entrance , where the bleeding captain is mentioned , was probably the work of the player editors , and not of the poet . Sergeant , however , ( as the ingenious compiler of the Glossary to A. of Wyntown's ...
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Johnson's emendation is probably right ; but it should be recollected that quarry means not only game , but also an arrow , an offensive weapon ; we might say without objection , " that Fortune smiled on a warrior's sword .
Johnson's emendation is probably right ; but it should be recollected that quarry means not only game , but also an arrow , an offensive weapon ; we might say without objection , " that Fortune smiled on a warrior's sword .
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The word [ as Mr. Douce has observed , ] was probably pronounced capitaine in this instance , as it is frequently in Spenser . BOSWELL . - As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks , & c . ] That is , with double charges ; a metonymy of ...
The word [ as Mr. Douce has observed , ] was probably pronounced capitaine in this instance , as it is frequently in Spenser . BOSWELL . - As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks , & c . ] That is , with double charges ; a metonymy 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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