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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... profufeness and luxury of Antony's entertainments at Alexandria . Shakspeare appears to have been very anxious in this play to introduce every inci- foothfayer that you praised so to the queen ? O 12 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
... profufeness and luxury of Antony's entertainments at Alexandria . Shakspeare appears to have been very anxious in this play to introduce every inci- foothfayer that you praised so to the queen ? O 12 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
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... appears from a pal- fage in As you like it : " And let my officers of fuch a nature " Make an extent upon his house and lands . " See Vol . VIII . p . 82 , n . 6 . Our ancient English writers almost always give us Euphrates instead of ...
... appears from a pal- fage in As you like it : " And let my officers of fuch a nature " Make an extent upon his house and lands . " See Vol . VIII . p . 82 , n . 6 . Our ancient English writers almost always give us Euphrates instead of ...
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... 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 let it lye ftill , & c . if it be ...
... 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 let it lye ftill , & c . if it be ...
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... appears to remove every difficulty from the paffage . - The pleasure of to - day , by revolution of events and change of cir- cumftances , often lofes all its value to us , and becomes to- morrow a pain . STEEVENS . 7 The hand could ...
... appears to remove every difficulty from the paffage . - The pleasure of to - day , by revolution of events and change of cir- cumftances , often lofes all its value to us , and becomes to- morrow a pain . STEEVENS . 7 The hand could ...
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... appear to have been so em- ployed rather by choice than by chance . STEEVENS . ୫ tives . · poorer moment : ] For lefs reafon ; upon meaner mo- JOHNSON . 9 We cannot call her winds and waters , fighs and tears ; ] I once idly fuppofed ...
... appear to have been so em- ployed rather by choice than by chance . STEEVENS . ୫ tives . · poorer moment : ] For lefs reafon ; upon meaner mo- JOHNSON . 9 We cannot call her winds and waters , fighs and tears ; ] I once idly fuppofed ...
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