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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For whom he now is banish'd , —her own price Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue ; By her election may be truly read , What kind of man he is . 2 GENT . Even out of your report . Is she sole child to the king ? 1 GENT .
For whom he now is banish'd , —her own price Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue ; By her election may be truly read , What kind of man he is . 2 GENT . Even out of your report . Is she sole child to the king ? 1 GENT .
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This is expressed with a kind of fantastical perplexity . He means , I was then willing to take for my direction the experience of others , more than such intelligence as I had gathered myself . JOHNSON . This passage cannot bear the ...
This is expressed with a kind of fantastical perplexity . He means , I was then willing to take for my direction the experience of others , more than such intelligence as I had gathered myself . JOHNSON . This passage cannot bear the ...
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As fair , and as good , ( a kind of hand - inhand comparison , ) had been something too fair , and too good , for any lady in Britany . If she went before others I have seen , as that diamond of yours out - lustres many I have beheld ...
As fair , and as good , ( a kind of hand - inhand comparison , ) had been something too fair , and too good , for any lady in Britany . If she went before others I have seen , as that diamond of yours out - lustres many I have beheld ...
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This kind of ellipsis is common in these plays . What both you spur and stop at , the poet means . See a note on Act II . Sc . III . MALONE . The meaning is , ' what you seem anxious to utter , and yet withhold . ' M. MASON .
This kind of ellipsis is common in these plays . What both you spur and stop at , the poet means . See a note on Act II . Sc . III . MALONE . The meaning is , ' what you seem anxious to utter , and yet withhold . ' M. MASON .
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66 like a DESCENDED god : ] So , in Hamlet : a station like the herald Mercury , " New lighted on a heaven kissing - hill . " The old copy has - defended . The correction was made by the He hath a kind of honour sets him off , SC .
66 like a DESCENDED god : ] So , in Hamlet : a station like the herald Mercury , " New lighted on a heaven kissing - hill . " The old copy has - defended . The correction was made by the He hath a kind of honour sets him off , SC .
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