The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 3C. and A. Conrad, 1805 |
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... called Tarleton's Nees out of Purgatorie . Mr. Capell pretended to much knowledge of this sort ; and I am sorry that it proved to be only pretension . Mr. Warton observes , in a note to the last Oxford edition , that the play was ...
... called Tarleton's Nees out of Purgatorie . Mr. Capell pretended to much knowledge of this sort ; and I am sorry that it proved to be only pretension . Mr. Warton observes , in a note to the last Oxford edition , that the play was ...
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... called on the title page , the Welch Knight ; and yet there are some persons who still affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . Farmer . Dr Farmer's opinion is well supported by " An Eclogue ...
... called on the title page , the Welch Knight ; and yet there are some persons who still affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . Farmer . Dr Farmer's opinion is well supported by " An Eclogue ...
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... called Sir . Upon which it may be ob- served , that anciently it was the common designation both of one in holy orders and a knight . Fuller somewhere in his Church History says , that anciently there were in England more sirs than ...
... called Sir . Upon which it may be ob- served , that anciently it was the common designation both of one in holy orders and a knight . Fuller somewhere in his Church History says , that anciently there were in England more sirs than ...
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... called the benchers ' phrase . Steevens . Shakspeare seems to frolic here in his heraldry , with a design not to be easily understood . In Leland's Collectanea , Vol . I , P. II , p . 615 , the arms of Geffrey de Lucy are " de goules ...
... called the benchers ' phrase . Steevens . Shakspeare seems to frolic here in his heraldry , with a design not to be easily understood . In Leland's Collectanea , Vol . I , P. II , p . 615 , the arms of Geffrey de Lucy are " de goules ...
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... many years ) when I came away . ' In Shadwell's Lancashire Witches , Vol . III , p . 232 , the game is called Shuffle - board . It is still played ; and I lately heard a man Fal . Is this true , Pistol ? Eva . 20 MERRY WIVES.
... many years ) when I came away . ' In Shadwell's Lancashire Witches , Vol . III , p . 232 , the game is called Shuffle - board . It is still played ; and I lately heard a man Fal . Is this true , Pistol ? Eva . 20 MERRY WIVES.
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Page 327 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
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Page 220 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
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Page 343 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
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