The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... WARBURTON . This is but an imperfect ( to call it no worse ) explanation of a beautiful passage . The quintain was not the object of the darts and arms : it was a stake driven into a field , upon which were hung a shield and other ...
... WARBURTON . This is but an imperfect ( to call it no worse ) explanation of a beautiful passage . The quintain was not the object of the darts and arms : it was a stake driven into a field , upon which were hung a shield and other ...
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... WARBURTON . Either reading may stand . The sense of the established text is not remote or obfcure . Where would be the abfurdity of faying , You know not the law which teaches you to do right ? JOHNSON . Shall we be sunder'd ? shall we ...
... WARBURTON . Either reading may stand . The sense of the established text is not remote or obfcure . Where would be the abfurdity of faying , You know not the law which teaches you to do right ? JOHNSON . Shall we be sunder'd ? shall we ...
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... WARBURTON . So , Milton : " Giants of mighty bone . " JOHNSON . So , in the Romance of Syr Degore , bl . 1. no date : " This is a man all for the nones , " For he is a man of great bones . " Bonny , however , may be the true reading ...
... WARBURTON . So , Milton : " Giants of mighty bone . " JOHNSON . So , in the Romance of Syr Degore , bl . 1. no date : " This is a man all for the nones , " For he is a man of great bones . " Bonny , however , may be the true reading ...
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... Warburton and I , concurred in conjecturing it should be , as I have reformed in the text : -how weary are my spirits ! And the Clown's reply makes this reading certain . THEOBALD . She invokes Jupiter , because he was supposed to be ...
... Warburton and I , concurred in conjecturing it should be , as I have reformed in the text : -how weary are my spirits ! And the Clown's reply makes this reading certain . THEOBALD . She invokes Jupiter , because he was supposed to be ...
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... Warburton observes , that this was no unusual division of a play before our author's time ; " but forbears to offer any one example in support of his affertion . I have care- fully perused almost every dramatick piece antecedent to Shak ...
... Warburton observes , that this was no unusual division of a play before our author's time ; " but forbears to offer any one example in support of his affertion . I have care- fully perused almost every dramatick piece antecedent to Shak ...
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