The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone, Volume 8 |
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To breatbe a horse , is to exercise him for the course . JOHNSON . - continuate -
1 This word is used by many ancient English writers . Thus , by Chapman in his
version of the 4th book of the Odyley : · Her handmaids join'd in a continuate yell .
To breatbe a horse , is to exercise him for the course . JOHNSON . - continuate -
1 This word is used by many ancient English writers . Thus , by Chapman in his
version of the 4th book of the Odyley : · Her handmaids join'd in a continuate yell .
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The term - ur betters , being used by the inferior classes of men when they speak
of their superiors in the state , Shakspeare uses these words , with his usual laxity
, to express persons of high rank and for . tune . Dr. Warburton idly supposes ...
The term - ur betters , being used by the inferior classes of men when they speak
of their superiors in the state , Shakspeare uses these words , with his usual laxity
, to express persons of high rank and for . tune . Dr. Warburton idly supposes ...
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In this sense , both the terms have their usual meaning ; but I know not that cock
is ever used for cockloff . or walleful for lying in waste , or that lying in waste is at
all a phrase . JOHNSON . Whatever be the meaning of the present passage , it is
...
In this sense , both the terms have their usual meaning ; but I know not that cock
is ever used for cockloff . or walleful for lying in waste , or that lying in waste is at
all a phrase . JOHNSON . Whatever be the meaning of the present passage , it is
...
Page 66
They present theis written bills ; he catches at the word , alludes to the bills , or
battleaxes , which the ancient soldiery carried , and were still used by the watch
in Shakspeare's time . See the scene between Dogberry , & c . in Mucb ado about
...
They present theis written bills ; he catches at the word , alludes to the bills , or
battleaxes , which the ancient soldiery carried , and were still used by the watch
in Shakspeare's time . See the scene between Dogberry , & c . in Mucb ado about
...
Page 81
Who 30 , the fierce wretcbedness - } I believe fierce is here used for bafiy ,
precipitate . Perhaps it is employed in the same sense by Ben Jonion in his
Poetafter : “ And Lupus , for your fierce credulity , “ One fit him with a larger pair of
ears .
Who 30 , the fierce wretcbedness - } I believe fierce is here used for bafiy ,
precipitate . Perhaps it is employed in the same sense by Ben Jonion in his
Poetafter : “ And Lupus , for your fierce credulity , “ One fit him with a larger pair of
ears .
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| Title | The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to ..., Volume 8 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | H. Baldwin, 1790 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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