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JOHNSON . The whole history is exactly followed , and many of the speeches exactly copied from the life of Coriolanus in Plutarch . Of this play there is no edition before that of the players , in folio , in 1623 . POPE .
JOHNSON . The whole history is exactly followed , and many of the speeches exactly copied from the life of Coriolanus in Plutarch . Of this play there is no edition before that of the players , in folio , in 1623 . POPE .
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JOHNSON It may and yet I believe the proverb , as lean as a rake , owes its origin simply to the thin taper forin of the instrument made use of by hay - makers . As thin as a whipping - post , is another proverb of the same kind .
JOHNSON It may and yet I believe the proverb , as lean as a rake , owes its origin simply to the thin taper forin of the instrument made use of by hay - makers . As thin as a whipping - post , is another proverb of the same kind .
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JOHNSON . The thought seems to have been taken from Sido ney's Arcadia , p . 293 . " their flesh abode the wounds constantly , as though it were less sensible of smart than “ the senseless armour , which by piecemeal fell away from them ...
JOHNSON . The thought seems to have been taken from Sido ney's Arcadia , p . 293 . " their flesh abode the wounds constantly , as though it were less sensible of smart than “ the senseless armour , which by piecemeal fell away from them ...
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JOHNSON . The author of the Revisal thinks the poet wrote , “ And so I shall quickly draw out , " & c . STEEVENS . -Wert thou the Hector , That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny , ] The Romans boasted themselves descended from the ...
JOHNSON . The author of the Revisal thinks the poet wrote , “ And so I shall quickly draw out , " & c . STEEVENS . -Wert thou the Hector , That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny , ] The Romans boasted themselves descended from the ...
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JOHNSON . 15 Here is the steed , we the caparison , ] This is an odd encomium . The meaning is , this man performed the action , and we only filled up the show . JOHNSON . -when drums and trumpets shall , I'the field , prove flatterers ...
JOHNSON . 15 Here is the steed , we the caparison , ] This is an odd encomium . The meaning is , this man performed the action , and we only filled up the show . JOHNSON . -when drums and trumpets shall , I'the field , prove flatterers ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: Coriolanus. Julius Caesar Volume 11 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Manley Wood |
| Publisher | G. Kearsley, 1806 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 10 Dec 2009 |
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