The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 70Bickers and Son, 1880 - 1002 pages |
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... horse . " Fr. and Engl . Dict .: Barbed is said to be a cor- ruption of barded ) . barbermonger , " a fop who deals much with barbers , to adjust his hair and beard " ( MASON ) , vii . 279 . barber's chair , that fits all buttocks ...
... horse . " Fr. and Engl . Dict .: Barbed is said to be a cor- ruption of barded ) . barbermonger , " a fop who deals much with barbers , to adjust his hair and beard " ( MASON ) , vii . 279 . barber's chair , that fits all buttocks ...
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... horse by him became his deed , viii . 442 . become you well to worship shadows - Since your falsehood shall , i . 309 : " It is simply ' since your falsehood shall adapt or render you fit to worship shadows . ' Become here answers to ...
... horse by him became his deed , viii . 442 . become you well to worship shadows - Since your falsehood shall , i . 309 : " It is simply ' since your falsehood shall adapt or render you fit to worship shadows . ' Become here answers to ...
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... horse - furniture ; sometimes they were provided with a side - hook to seize a bridle . " FAIRHOLT ) : take thou the bill ( with a quibble ) , give me thy mete - yard , iii . 163 ; my brain - pan had been cleft with a brown bill , v ...
... horse - furniture ; sometimes they were provided with a side - hook to seize a bridle . " FAIRHOLT ) : take thou the bill ( with a quibble ) , give me thy mete - yard , iii . 163 ; my brain - pan had been cleft with a brown bill , v ...
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... horses backs with the cold . Wherefore unto this day it hath been call'd the Blacke- Monday . ' Stow , p . 264 b . ” ( GREY . ) blacks - O'er - dy'd , iii . 424 : Blacks , i.e. mourning habiliments : by BLADED - BLOCK . 41 o'er - dy'd ...
... horses backs with the cold . Wherefore unto this day it hath been call'd the Blacke- Monday . ' Stow , p . 264 b . ” ( GREY . ) blacks - O'er - dy'd , iii . 424 : Blacks , i.e. mourning habiliments : by BLADED - BLOCK . 41 o'er - dy'd ...
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... horse , sheep , or other animal , perspires much , and any of the hair or wool , in consequence of such perspiration , or any re- dundant humour , becomes matted in tufts with grime and sweat , he is said to be boltered ; and whenever ...
... horse , sheep , or other animal , perspires much , and any of the hair or wool , in consequence of such perspiration , or any re- dundant humour , becomes matted in tufts with grime and sweat , he is said to be boltered ; and whenever ...
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Page 293 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 273 - And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 235 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council : and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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Page 372 - The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 395 - And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Page 159 - The ancients, who often paid more attention to received opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that fern bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence, from an extraordinary mode of reasoning, founded on the fantastic doctrine of signatures, they concluded that they who possessed the secret of wearing this seed about them would become invisible.
Page 91 - It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate, nor of...
Page 111 - As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds." 148. curtal dog] The reference is to the turnspit dog with the tail cut short. " A curtal dog," says Nares, Glossary, " was originally the dog of an unqualified person, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark and partly from a notion that the tail of a dog is necessary to him in running.