The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 13J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... ancient pieces which he will find in the Essay on this subject . With respect to the second and third parts of King Henry VI or , as they were originally called , The Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster , they ...
... ancient pieces which he will find in the Essay on this subject . With respect to the second and third parts of King Henry VI or , as they were originally called , The Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster , they ...
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... to confound the two characters . RITSON . 2 Hung be the heavens with black , ] Alluding to our ancient stage - practice when a tragedy was to be expected . So , in Sid- Brandish your crystal tresses3 in the sky ; And with FIRST PART OF ...
... to confound the two characters . RITSON . 2 Hung be the heavens with black , ] Alluding to our ancient stage - practice when a tragedy was to be expected . So , in Sid- Brandish your crystal tresses3 in the sky ; And with FIRST PART OF ...
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... ancient writers . So , in a Sonnet , by Lord Sterline , 1604 : " When as those chrystal comets whiles appear . " Spenser , in his Fairy Queen , Book I. c . x . applies it to a lady's face : " Like sunny beams threw from her chrystal ...
... ancient writers . So , in a Sonnet , by Lord Sterline , 1604 : " When as those chrystal comets whiles appear . " Spenser , in his Fairy Queen , Book I. c . x . applies it to a lady's face : " Like sunny beams threw from her chrystal ...
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... ancients . See the eighth Iliad , in which the illegitimacy of Teucer is mentioned as a panegyric upon him , ver . 284 : 3 * 6 Καί σε , νόθον περ ἐόντα , κομίσσατο ὦ ἐνὶ οἴκω . ” STEEVENS . your cheer appall'd ; ] Cheer is jollity ...
... ancients . See the eighth Iliad , in which the illegitimacy of Teucer is mentioned as a panegyric upon him , ver . 284 : 3 * 6 Καί σε , νόθον περ ἐόντα , κομίσσατο ὦ ἐνὶ οἴκω . ” STEEVENS . your cheer appall'd ; ] Cheer is jollity ...
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... ancient gentry ? His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood ; And , till thou be restor❜d , thou art a yeoman , PLAN . My father was attached , not attainted ; Condemn'd to die for treason , but no traitor ; And that I'll prove on ...
... ancient gentry ? His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood ; And , till thou be restor❜d , thou art a yeoman , PLAN . My father was attached , not attainted ; Condemn'd to die for treason , but no traitor ; And that I'll prove on ...
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