The Dramatic Works, Volume 1at the Clarendon Press, M DCC LXXXVI. To be had of Mess. Rivington, London; Mess. Prince and Cooke and C. Selwin Rann, Oxford; and of Mess. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham, 1829 |
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Page 138
... Launce chooses to understand it in the literal and laudatory sense . Cotgrave renders " Friand , A sweet - lips , daintie - mouthed , sweet - toothed , " & c . 1 Laun . It's no matter for that , so she 138 ACT III . TWO GENTLEMEN.
... Launce chooses to understand it in the literal and laudatory sense . Cotgrave renders " Friand , A sweet - lips , daintie - mouthed , sweet - toothed , " & c . 1 Laun . It's no matter for that , so she 138 ACT III . TWO GENTLEMEN.
Page 187
... Cot- grave translates it , ' to cast a sheep's eye . What distinguishes the language of Nym from that of the other attendants on Falstaff is the constant repetition of this phrase . In the time of Shakspeare such an affectation seems to ...
... Cot- grave translates it , ' to cast a sheep's eye . What distinguishes the language of Nym from that of the other attendants on Falstaff is the constant repetition of this phrase . In the time of Shakspeare such an affectation seems to ...
Page 190
... Cotgrave was near the mark , but missed it : " Haut à la main , Homme à la main , Homme de main . A MAN OF HIS HANDS ; a man of execution or valour ; a striker , like enough to lay about him ; proud , surlie , sullen , stubborn . " So ...
... Cotgrave was near the mark , but missed it : " Haut à la main , Homme à la main , Homme de main . A MAN OF HIS HANDS ; a man of execution or valour ; a striker , like enough to lay about him ; proud , surlie , sullen , stubborn . " So ...
Page 251
... Cotgrave explains diffused by the French diffus , espars , OBSCURE , and in Cooper's Dictionary 1584 , I find obscurum interpreted ' obscure , difficult , DIFFUSE , hard to understand . Skelton uses diffuse several times for strange or ...
... Cotgrave explains diffused by the French diffus , espars , OBSCURE , and in Cooper's Dictionary 1584 , I find obscurum interpreted ' obscure , difficult , DIFFUSE , hard to understand . Skelton uses diffuse several times for strange or ...
Page 265
... Cotgrave's Dictionary , voce JOUELLES , we have Arched or yoked vines ; vines so under propped or fashioned that one may go under the middle of them . See also Hutton's Latin , Greek , and English Lexicon , 1585 , in voce JUGUM ; ' a ...
... Cotgrave's Dictionary , voce JOUELLES , we have Arched or yoked vines ; vines so under propped or fashioned that one may go under the middle of them . See also Hutton's Latin , Greek , and English Lexicon , 1585 , in voce JUGUM ; ' a ...
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