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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... ufed in tilling them . Earing fignifies plowing both here and in page 48. So , in Genefis , c . xlv : " Yet there are five years , in the which there shall neither be earing nor harveft . " BLACKSTONE . This conjecture is well founded ...
... ufed in tilling them . Earing fignifies plowing both here and in page 48. So , in Genefis , c . xlv : " Yet there are five years , in the which there shall neither be earing nor harveft . " BLACKSTONE . This conjecture is well founded ...
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... 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 wheate it will turne into rye ...
... 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 wheate it will turne into rye ...
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... ufed , affords no meaning ; and I had the lefs fcruple on the prefent occafion , because the fame error is found in King John , Act V. fc . vii . where we have , in the only authentick copy : Death , having prey'd upon the outward parts ...
... ufed , affords no meaning ; and I had the lefs fcruple on the prefent occafion , because the fame error is found in King John , Act V. fc . vii . where we have , in the only authentick copy : Death , having prey'd upon the outward parts ...
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... ufed by Heywood , in The Rape of Lucrece , 1638 : " " thou Tarquin , doft alone furvive , " The head of all thofe garboiles . " Again , by Stanyhurft , in his tranflation of the first Book of Virgil's Eneid , 1582 : " Now manhood and ...
... ufed by Heywood , in The Rape of Lucrece , 1638 : " " thou Tarquin , doft alone furvive , " The head of all thofe garboiles . " Again , by Stanyhurft , in his tranflation of the first Book of Virgil's Eneid , 1582 : " Now manhood and ...
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... ufed for a memory apt to be deceitful . If too much latitude be taken in this explanation , we might with little violence read , as Mr. Edwards has propofed in his MS . notes : Oh me ! oblivion is a very Antony , & c . STEEVENS ...
... ufed for a memory apt to be deceitful . If too much latitude be taken in this explanation , we might with little violence read , as Mr. Edwards has propofed in his MS . notes : Oh me ! oblivion is a very Antony , & c . STEEVENS ...
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