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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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The word quarrel occurs in Holinshed's relation of this very fact , and may be regarded as a sufficient proof of its having been . the term here employed by Shakspeare : " Out of the western isles there came to Macdowald a great ...
The word quarrel occurs in Holinshed's relation of this very fact , and may be regarded as a sufficient proof of its having been . the term here employed by Shakspeare : " Out of the western isles there came to Macdowald a great ...
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I - thunders BREAK ; ] The word break is wanting in the oldest copy . The other folios and Rowe read - breaking . Mr. Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the second folio , is very ...
I - thunders BREAK ; ] The word break is wanting in the oldest copy . The other folios and Rowe read - breaking . Mr. Pope made the emendation . STEEVENS . Break , which was suggested by the reading of the second folio , is very ...
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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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So well thy words become thee , as thy wounds ; They smack of honour both : -Go , get him surgeons . ... The word memorize , which some suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a sonnet to Lord Buckhurst ...
So well thy words become thee , as thy wounds ; They smack of honour both : -Go , get him surgeons . ... The word memorize , which some suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a sonnet to Lord Buckhurst ...
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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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