The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 13 |
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Perhaps this passage may be somewhat illustrated by the following lines in Troilus and Cressida , Act III . Sc . III . : no man is the lord of any thing , " Till he communicate his parts to others : " Nor doth he of himself know them ...
Perhaps this passage may be somewhat illustrated by the following lines in Troilus and Cressida , Act III . Sc . III . : no man is the lord of any thing , " Till he communicate his parts to others : " Nor doth he of himself know them ...
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Perhaps cerements , in Hamlet's address to the Ghost , was used for searments in the same sense . HENLEY . I believe nothing more than close up was intended . In the spelling of the last age , however , no ...
Perhaps cerements , in Hamlet's address to the Ghost , was used for searments in the same sense . HENLEY . I believe nothing more than close up was intended . In the spelling of the last age , however , no ...
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A line in Timon of Athens may perhaps prove the best comment on the former part of this passage : " O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings ! " In King Henry VIII . also , Anna Bullen utters a sentiment that bears a strong ...
A line in Timon of Athens may perhaps prove the best comment on the former part of this passage : " O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings ! " In King Henry VIII . also , Anna Bullen utters a sentiment that bears a strong ...
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Number'd is perhaps numerous . Twinn'd stones I do not understand.Twinn'd shells , or pairs of shells , are very common . For twinn'd we might read twin'd ; that is , twisted , convolved : but this sense is more applicable to shells ...
Number'd is perhaps numerous . Twinn'd stones I do not understand.Twinn'd shells , or pairs of shells , are very common . For twinn'd we might read twin'd ; that is , twisted , convolved : but this sense is more applicable to shells ...
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Dr. Johnson's interpretation would perhaps be more exact , if after the word desire he had added , however hungry , or sharp ́set . A late editor , Mr. Capell , was so little acquainted with his author , as not to know that Shakspeare ...
Dr. Johnson's interpretation would perhaps be more exact , if after the word desire he had added , however hungry , or sharp ́set . A late editor , Mr. Capell , was so little acquainted with his author , as not to know that Shakspeare ...
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