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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His daughter , and the heir of his kingdom , whom proposed , Sir Thomas Hanmer's is the more licentious ; but he makes the sense clear , and leaves the reader an easy passage . Dr. Warburton has corrected with more caution , but less ...
His daughter , and the heir of his kingdom , whom proposed , Sir Thomas Hanmer's is the more licentious ; but he makes the sense clear , and leaves the reader an easy passage . Dr. Warburton has corrected with more caution , but less ...
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66 I prefer the additional word introduced by Sir Thomas Hanmer , to all the other attempts at emendation . Many a year's age , ' is an idea of some weight : but if Cymbeline meant to say that his daughter's conduct made him precisely ...
66 I prefer the additional word introduced by Sir Thomas Hanmer , to all the other attempts at emendation . Many a year's age , ' is an idea of some weight : but if Cymbeline meant to say that his daughter's conduct made him precisely ...
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... expound 9 Live like Diana's PRIEST , betwixt cold sheets ; ] Sir Thomas Hanmer , supposing this to be an inaccurate expression , reads : " Live like Diana's priestess ' twixt cold sheets ; but the text is as the author wrote it .
... expound 9 Live like Diana's PRIEST , betwixt cold sheets ; ] Sir Thomas Hanmer , supposing this to be an inaccurate expression , reads : " Live like Diana's priestess ' twixt cold sheets ; but the text is as the author wrote it .
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66 Again , Thomas Drant's translation of the first epistle of the second book of Horace , 1567 : " The Romishe people wise in this , in this point only just . " STEEVENS . 66 - 5 3 - and a daughter WHOм- ] Old copy - who .
66 Again , Thomas Drant's translation of the first epistle of the second book of Horace , 1567 : " The Romishe people wise in this , in this point only just . " STEEVENS . 66 - 5 3 - and a daughter WHOм- ] Old copy - who .
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It was the custom in the time of our author to strew chambers with rushes , as we now cover them with carpets : the practice is mentioned in Caius de Ephemera Britannica . JOHNSON . So , in Thomas Newton's Herball to the Bible , 8vo .
It was the custom in the time of our author to strew chambers with rushes , as we now cover them with carpets : the practice is mentioned in Caius de Ephemera Britannica . JOHNSON . So , in Thomas Newton's Herball to the Bible , 8vo .
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