The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 6J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... JOHNSON . 7 -if he have wit enough to keep himself warm , let him bear it for a difference & c . ] Such a one has wit enough to keep himself warm , is a proverbial expression . So , in Heywood's Epigrams on Proverbs : " Wit kept by ...
... JOHNSON . 7 -if he have wit enough to keep himself warm , let him bear it for a difference & c . ] Such a one has wit enough to keep himself warm , is a proverbial expression . So , in Heywood's Epigrams on Proverbs : " Wit kept by ...
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... JOHNSON . Charge does not mean , as Dr. Johnson explains it , burden , incumbrance , but " the person committed to your care . " So it is used in the relationship between guardian and ward . DOUCE . BENE . Were you in doubt , sir , that ...
... JOHNSON . Charge does not mean , as Dr. Johnson explains it , burden , incumbrance , but " the person committed to your care . " So it is used in the relationship between guardian and ward . DOUCE . BENE . Were you in doubt , sir , that ...
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... JOHNSON . The ridicule here is to the formal conclusions of Epistles dedi- catory and Letters . Barnaby Googe thus ... Johnson's latter explanation is , I believe , the true one . By old ends the speaker may mean the conclusion of ...
... JOHNSON . The ridicule here is to the formal conclusions of Epistles dedi- catory and Letters . Barnaby Googe thus ... Johnson's latter explanation is , I believe , the true one . By old ends the speaker may mean the conclusion of ...
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... JOHNSON . 5 claw no man in his humour . ] To claw is to flatter . So , the pope's claw - backs , in Bishop Jewel , are the pope's flatterers . The sense is the same in the proverb , Mulus mulum scabit . So , in Albion's England , 1597 ...
... JOHNSON . 5 claw no man in his humour . ] To claw is to flatter . So , the pope's claw - backs , in Bishop Jewel , are the pope's flatterers . The sense is the same in the proverb , Mulus mulum scabit . So , in Albion's England , 1597 ...
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... ner of our author , who is sometimes trying to purchase merri- ment at too dear a rate . JOHNSON . I have restored the lines omitted . STEEVEns . you to heaven ; here's no place for you maids SC . I. 37 ABOUT NOTHING .
... ner of our author , who is sometimes trying to purchase merri- ment at too dear a rate . JOHNSON . I have restored the lines omitted . STEEVEns . you to heaven ; here's no place for you maids SC . I. 37 ABOUT NOTHING .
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