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... fenfe than quantity , but either may ferve . JOHNSON . Quantity is our author's word . So , in Hamlet , A & III . fc . ii : " And women's fear and love hold quantity STEEVENS . in game- ] Game here fignifies not contentious play , but ...
... fenfe than quantity , but either may ferve . JOHNSON . Quantity is our author's word . So , in Hamlet , A & III . fc . ii : " And women's fear and love hold quantity STEEVENS . in game- ] Game here fignifies not contentious play , but ...
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... fenfe , in my opinion , hath been hitherto mistaken ; and inflead of a point , a fubftantive , I would read appoint a verb , that is , appoint what part each actor is to perform , which is the real cafe . Quince firft tells them the ...
... fenfe , in my opinion , hath been hitherto mistaken ; and inflead of a point , a fubftantive , I would read appoint a verb , that is , appoint what part each actor is to perform , which is the real cafe . Quince firft tells them the ...
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... fenfe of thefe lines is confused . Are not you he , says the fairy , that fright the country girls , that fkim milk , work in the hand mill , and make the tired dairy - woman churn without effect ? The mention of the mill feems out of ...
... fenfe of thefe lines is confused . Are not you he , says the fairy , that fright the country girls , that fkim milk , work in the hand mill , and make the tired dairy - woman churn without effect ? The mention of the mill feems out of ...
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... fenfe may be extracted from the foregoing words as they ftand ; but Dr. Farmer obferves to me that waxen is probably corrupted from yoxen , or yexen . Yoxe Saxon . to hiccup . Yyxyn . Singultio . Prompt . Parv . Thus in Chaucer's Reve's ...
... fenfe may be extracted from the foregoing words as they ftand ; but Dr. Farmer obferves to me that waxen is probably corrupted from yoxen , or yexen . Yoxe Saxon . to hiccup . Yyxyn . Singultio . Prompt . Parv . Thus in Chaucer's Reve's ...
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... fenfe : 66 By fome cleare river's lillie - paved fide . " HENLEY . - 8 Or on the beached margent- ] The old copies read - Or in . Correded by Mr. Pope . Malone . 9 the winds , piping - ] So , Milton : While rocking winds , are piping ...
... fenfe : 66 By fome cleare river's lillie - paved fide . " HENLEY . - 8 Or on the beached margent- ] The old copies read - Or in . Correded by Mr. Pope . Malone . 9 the winds , piping - ] So , Milton : While rocking winds , are piping ...
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