The Plays of William Shakspeare. ..: Volume the fifth. Containing Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth-night, Volume 5J. J. Tourneisen, 1799 - 389 pages |
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... . note feemingly in the hand - writing of Bp . Nicholfon , who gave thefe volumes to the library : Since I can remember there was not a reader in any chapel but was called Sir . " SLEN . Ay , and ratolorum too ; and a 8 MERRY WIVES.
... . note feemingly in the hand - writing of Bp . Nicholfon , who gave thefe volumes to the library : Since I can remember there was not a reader in any chapel but was called Sir . " SLEN . Ay , and ratolorum too ; and a 8 MERRY WIVES.
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... hand fword , the baftard fword , the dagger and ftaff , the fword and buckler , the rapier and dagger , & c . The places where they exercised were commonly theatres , halls , or other enclofures fuf- ficient to contain a number of ...
... hand fword , the baftard fword , the dagger and ftaff , the fword and buckler , the rapier and dagger , & c . The places where they exercised were commonly theatres , halls , or other enclofures fuf- ficient to contain a number of ...
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... hands of that time anchor and au- ther could hardly be diftinguifhed . JOHNSON . " The anchor is deep , " may mean - his hopes are well founded . So , in The Knight of the Burning Pefie , by Beaumont and Fletcher a Now my latest hope ...
... hands of that time anchor and au- ther could hardly be diftinguifhed . JOHNSON . " The anchor is deep , " may mean - his hopes are well founded . So , in The Knight of the Burning Pefie , by Beaumont and Fletcher a Now my latest hope ...
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... hand , to Ford , and not to Page . Shakspeare is frequently guilty of thefe little forgetfulneffes . STEEVENS The folio reads to Ford ; and in the next line - and I to Page , & c . But the reverse of this ( as Mr. Steevens has obferved ) ...
... hand , to Ford , and not to Page . Shakspeare is frequently guilty of thefe little forgetfulneffes . STEEVENS The folio reads to Ford ; and in the next line - and I to Page , & c . But the reverse of this ( as Mr. Steevens has obferved ) ...
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... hands , ] Perhaps this is an allufion to the jockey measure , fo many hands high , ufed by , grooms when fpeaking of horses . Tall , in our author's time , fignified not only height of ftature , but floutness of body . The ambiguity of ...
... hands , ] Perhaps this is an allufion to the jockey measure , fo many hands high , ufed by , grooms when fpeaking of horses . Tall , in our author's time , fignified not only height of ftature , but floutness of body . The ambiguity of ...
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