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 To sear up , is properly to close up by burning ; but in this passage the poet may have dropped that idea , and used the word simply for to close up . STEEVENS . May not sear up , here mean solder up , and the reference be to a lead ...
66 To sear up , is properly to close up by burning ; but in this passage the poet may have dropped that idea , and used the word simply for to close up . STEEVENS . May not sear up , here mean solder up , and the reference be to a lead ...
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Again , in Pericles : " Thou giv'st me somewhat to repair myself . " , STEEVENS . thou heapest 66 A YEAR'S AGE on me ! ] The obvious sense of this passage , on which several experiments have been made , is in some degree countenanced by ...
Again , in Pericles : " Thou giv'st me somewhat to repair myself . " , STEEVENS . thou heapest 66 A YEAR'S AGE on me ! ] The obvious sense of this passage , on which several experiments have been made , is in some degree countenanced by ...
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I think the old reading may be sufficiently supported by the following passage in the 18th Sonnet of our author : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May . " Again , in The Taming of the Shrew : " Confounds thy fame , as whirlwinds ...
I think the old reading may be sufficiently supported by the following passage in the 18th Sonnet of our author : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May . " Again , in The Taming of the Shrew : " Confounds thy fame , as whirlwinds ...
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In a note on Antony and Cleopatra , I have proved this incontestably , by comparing a passage similar to that in the text with the words of Plutarch on which it is formed . The passage is : 66 I - condemn myself to lack " The courage of ...
In a note on Antony and Cleopatra , I have proved this incontestably , by comparing a passage similar to that in the text with the words of Plutarch on which it is formed . The passage is : 66 I - condemn myself to lack " The courage of ...
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