The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... WARBURTON . Sties is better than stays , and more likely to be Shakspeare's . So , in Noah's Flood , by Drayton : 4 JOHNSON . STEEVENS . We should cer- " And sty themselves up in a little room . " his countenance feems to take from me ...
... WARBURTON . Sties is better than stays , and more likely to be Shakspeare's . So , in Noah's Flood , by Drayton : 4 JOHNSON . STEEVENS . We should cer- " And sty themselves up in a little room . " his countenance feems to take from me ...
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... WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the fignification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning from this note , I read : Be better employed , and be naught a while , In the same sense as we fay ...
... WARBURTON . If be nought awhile has the fignification here given it , the reading may certainly stand ; but till I learned its meaning from this note , I read : Be better employed , and be naught a while , In the same sense as we fay ...
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... owned , indeed , you are nearer in eftate . WARBURTON . This , I apprehend , refers to the courtesy of diftinguishing the eldest fon of a knight , by the title of esquire . HENLEY . 1 1 OLI . Wilt thou lay hands on me , AS YOU LIKE IT . 9.
... owned , indeed , you are nearer in eftate . WARBURTON . This , I apprehend , refers to the courtesy of diftinguishing the eldest fon of a knight , by the title of esquire . HENLEY . 1 1 OLI . Wilt thou lay hands on me , AS YOU LIKE IT . 9.
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... WARBURTON . This conjecture is ingenious . Where meaning is so very thin , as in this vein of jocularity , it is hard to catch , and therefore I know not well what to determine ; but I cannot fee why Rosalind should fuppofe , that the ...
... WARBURTON . This conjecture is ingenious . Where meaning is so very thin , as in this vein of jocularity , it is hard to catch , and therefore I know not well what to determine ; but I cannot fee why Rosalind should fuppofe , that the ...
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... WARBURTON . I cannot find the abfurdity of the present reading . If you were not blinded and intoxicated , says the princess , with the spirit of enter- prise , if you could use your own eyes to fee , or your own judgment to know ...
... WARBURTON . I cannot find the abfurdity of the present reading . If you were not blinded and intoxicated , says the princess , with the spirit of enter- prise , if you could use your own eyes to fee , or your own judgment to know ...
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