The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 6Riley, 1806 |
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... expression is proverbial . It is used in Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit without Money : 15 66 will you go drink " And let the world slide , uncle ? " Steevens . • you have burst ? ] To burst and to break were anciently synonymous ...
... expression is proverbial . It is used in Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit without Money : 15 66 will you go drink " And let the world slide , uncle ? " Steevens . • you have burst ? ] To burst and to break were anciently synonymous ...
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... expression in Antony and Cleopatra : 66 - the boar of Thessaly " Was never so emboss'd . " Malone . Can any thing be more evident than that imboss'd means swell- ed in the knees , and that we ought to read bathe ? What has the imbossing ...
... expression in Antony and Cleopatra : 66 - the boar of Thessaly " Was never so emboss'd . " Malone . Can any thing be more evident than that imboss'd means swell- ed in the knees , and that we ought to read bathe ? What has the imbossing ...
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... expression was used to imply that John Naps ( who might have been a real character ) was a fat man : or as Poins calls the associates of Falstaff , Trojans , John Naps might be call- ed a Grecian for such another reason . Steevens . For ...
... expression was used to imply that John Naps ( who might have been a real character ) was a fat man : or as Poins calls the associates of Falstaff , Trojans , John Naps might be call- ed a Grecian for such another reason . Steevens . For ...
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... expression . It is used in Damon and Pithias , 1571. Dole is any thing dealt out or dis- tributed , though its original meaning was the provision given away at the doors of great men's houses . Steevens . In Cupid's Revenge , by ...
... expression . It is used in Damon and Pithias , 1571. Dole is any thing dealt out or dis- tributed , though its original meaning was the provision given away at the doors of great men's houses . Steevens . In Cupid's Revenge , by ...
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... expression at this day to say , when a bailiff has arrested a man , that he has touched him on the shoulder . Therefore touch'd is as good a translation of captus , as toyl'd would be . Thus , in As you Like it , Rosalind says to ...
... expression at this day to say , when a bailiff has arrested a man , that he has touched him on the shoulder . Therefore touch'd is as good a translation of captus , as toyl'd would be . Thus , in As you Like it , Rosalind says to ...
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ancient Antigonus Antipholus Antony and Cleopatra Autolycus Baptista Ben Jonson Bian Bianca Bion Biondello Bohemia Camillo comedy Cymbeline daughter dost doth Dromio Duke editor emendation Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes fair father Feran Ferando fool gentleman give Gremio hand Hanmer hath hear honour Hortensio husband Johnson Kate Kath Katharina King Henry King Henry IV King Lear lady Leon Leontes look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucentio Malone married Mason master means merry mistress never old copy Othello Padua passage Paulina perhaps Petruchio play Polixenes pray prince queen Ritson scene second folio sense servants Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shep Shrew signifies signior speak Steevens suppose sweet tell thee Theobald thing thou art Tranio unto villain Vincentio Warburton wife word