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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... ( fays he ) it was thus . He left me a thousand crowns ; and , as thou fayeft , charged my brother , & c . BLACKSTONE . Omiffion being of all the errors of the press the most common , I have adopted the emendation proposed by Sir W ...
... ( fays he ) it was thus . He left me a thousand crowns ; and , as thou fayeft , charged my brother , & c . BLACKSTONE . Omiffion being of all the errors of the press the most common , I have adopted the emendation proposed by Sir W ...
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... ( fays he ) be better employed , in my opinion , in being and doing nothing . Your idleness , as you call it , may be an exercise by which you make a figure , and endear yourself to the world : and I had rather you were a contemptible ...
... ( fays he ) be better employed , in my opinion , in being and doing nothing . Your idleness , as you call it , may be an exercise by which you make a figure , and endear yourself to the world : and I had rather you were a contemptible ...
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... fay - It is better to do mischief , than to do nothing . JOHNSON . Notwithstanding Dr. Warburton's far - fetched explanation , I be- lieve that the words be naught awhile , mean no more than this : " Be content to be a cypher , till I ...
... fay - It is better to do mischief , than to do nothing . JOHNSON . Notwithstanding Dr. Warburton's far - fetched explanation , I be- lieve that the words be naught awhile , mean no more than this : " Be content to be a cypher , till I ...
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... ridicule falls upon him- self . Lassels , in his Voyage of Italy , fays of tutors , " Some per- suade their pupils , that it is fine carrying a gun upon their necks . " LE BEAU . The eldest of the three wrestled with 20 AS YOU LIKE IT .
... ridicule falls upon him- self . Lassels , in his Voyage of Italy , fays of tutors , " Some per- suade their pupils , that it is fine carrying a gun upon their necks . " LE BEAU . The eldest of the three wrestled with 20 AS YOU LIKE IT .
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... fay : Cor . And to you , gentle fir , and to you all . Lodge's Rosalynd , the novel on which this comedy is founded . It likewife occurs in the old anonymous play of The Victories of K. Henry V. in Peele's Jefts , & c . STEEVENS . The ...
... fay : Cor . And to you , gentle fir , and to you all . Lodge's Rosalynd , the novel on which this comedy is founded . It likewife occurs in the old anonymous play of The Victories of K. Henry V. in Peele's Jefts , & c . STEEVENS . The ...
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