The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... MASON . -gipfy's luft . ] Gipfy is here used both in the original meaning for an Egyptian , and in its accidental sense for a bad woman . JOHNSON . Flourish . Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA , with their Trains 6 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
... MASON . -gipfy's luft . ] Gipfy is here used both in the original meaning for an Egyptian , and in its accidental sense for a bad woman . JOHNSON . Flourish . Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA , with their Trains 6 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
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... MASON . " The writings of our common lawyers fometimes call that the proceffe , by which a man is called into the court and no more . " Minfheu's Dict . 1617 , in v . Proceffè.- " To serve with proceffe . Vide to cite , to fummon ...
... MASON . " The writings of our common lawyers fometimes call that the proceffe , by which a man is called into the court and no more . " Minfheu's Dict . 1617 , in v . Proceffè.- " To serve with proceffe . Vide to cite , to fummon ...
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... MASON . Now , for the love of Love , and her foft hours , ] For the love of Love , means , for the fake of the queen of love . So , in The Comedy of Errors : " Let Love , being light , be drowned if he fink . " Mr. Rowe fubftituted his ...
... MASON . Now , for the love of Love , and her foft hours , ] For the love of Love , means , for the fake of the queen of love . So , in The Comedy of Errors : " Let Love , being light , be drowned if he fink . " Mr. Rowe fubftituted his ...
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... MASON . 8 let me have a child at fifty , ] This is one of Shak- fpeare's natural touches . Few circumftances are more flattering to the fair fex , than breeding at an advanced period of life . 9 STEEVENS . to whom Herod of Jewry may do ...
... MASON . 8 let me have a child at fifty , ] This is one of Shak- fpeare's natural touches . Few circumftances are more flattering to the fair fex , than breeding at an advanced period of life . 9 STEEVENS . to whom Herod of Jewry may do ...
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... MASON . The words - lie ftill , appear to have been technically ufed by those who borrow their metaphors from husbandry . Thus Afcham , in his Toxophilus , edit . 1589 , p . 32 : " -as a grounde which is apt for corne , & c . if a man ...
... MASON . The words - lie ftill , appear to have been technically ufed by those who borrow their metaphors from husbandry . Thus Afcham , in his Toxophilus , edit . 1589 , p . 32 : " -as a grounde which is apt for corne , & c . if a man ...
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