The Plays of William Shakspeare ...C. Bathurst, 1785 |
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... of which no example can be fhown . The fenfe is plain , you owe to your father a being which he may at pleafure continue or deftroy . 4 JOHNSON . The . The . Either to die the death , or to MIDSUMMER - NIGHT's DREAM .
... of which no example can be fhown . The fenfe is plain , you owe to your father a being which he may at pleafure continue or deftroy . 4 JOHNSON . The . The . Either to die the death , or to MIDSUMMER - NIGHT's DREAM .
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... JOHNSON . 2 For aye , i . e . for ever . STEEVENS . 3 But earthlier happy is the rofe diftill'd , ] Thus all the copies : yet earthlier is fo harth a word , and earthlier happy , for happier earthly , a mode of fpeech fo unufual , that ...
... JOHNSON . 2 For aye , i . e . for ever . STEEVENS . 3 But earthlier happy is the rofe diftill'd , ] Thus all the copies : yet earthlier is fo harth a word , and earthlier happy , for happier earthly , a mode of fpeech fo unufual , that ...
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... JOHNSON . The first folio has not momentany but momentary . 9 Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night , That ... Johnson's Poctafter : " Thou haft not collied thy face enough . " STEEVENS . So So quick bright things come to confufion ...
... JOHNSON . The first folio has not momentany but momentary . 9 Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night , That ... Johnson's Poctafter : " Thou haft not collied thy face enough . " STEEVENS . So So quick bright things come to confufion ...
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... JOHNSON . The ready of the quarto is the true one , and I have restored it . Fair is ufed again as a fubftantive in the Comedy of Errors . Act . iii . f . 4. See vol . ii . p . 188 : " My decayed fair , " A funny look of his would foon ...
... JOHNSON . The ready of the quarto is the true one , and I have restored it . Fair is ufed again as a fubftantive in the Comedy of Errors . Act . iii . f . 4. See vol . ii . p . 188 : " My decayed fair , " A funny look of his would foon ...
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... JOHNSON . 2 None , but your beauty ; would that fault were mine ! ] 1 would point this line thus : None . But your beauty ; -Would that fault were mine ! HENDERSON . 3 Perhaps every reader may not difcover the propriety of thefe lines ...
... JOHNSON . 2 None , but your beauty ; would that fault were mine ! ] 1 would point this line thus : None . But your beauty ; -Would that fault were mine ! HENDERSON . 3 Perhaps every reader may not difcover the propriety of thefe lines ...
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