The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... fome diftance between the birth and maturity of folly as of wickedness : this opinion had long existed , though perhaps the application of it had in no foregoing age been fo frequent , nor the reception fo general . Olympiodorus , in ...
... fome diftance between the birth and maturity of folly as of wickedness : this opinion had long existed , though perhaps the application of it had in no foregoing age been fo frequent , nor the reception fo general . Olympiodorus , in ...
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... fome obscurity , but the plain meaning is this : As the fame quarter , whence the bleffing of day - light arises , Sometimes fends us , by a dreadful reverse , the calamities of Storms and tempests ; so the glorious event of Macbeth's ...
... fome obscurity , but the plain meaning is this : As the fame quarter , whence the bleffing of day - light arises , Sometimes fends us , by a dreadful reverse , the calamities of Storms and tempests ; so the glorious event of Macbeth's ...
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... fome degree of exultation , that he has no idea of a cannon charged with double cracks ; but furely the great author will not gain much by an alteration which makes him say of a hero , that he redoubles Strokes with double cracks , an ...
... fome degree of exultation , that he has no idea of a cannon charged with double cracks ; but furely the great author will not gain much by an alteration which makes him say of a hero , that he redoubles Strokes with double cracks , an ...
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... fome suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a fonnet to Lord Buck- hurst , prefixed to his Pastorals , 1579 : " In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , " By this rude rime to memorize thy name . " T ...
... fome suppose to have been coined by Shakspeare , is used by Spenser , in a fonnet to Lord Buck- hurst , prefixed to his Pastorals , 1579 : " In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , " By this rude rime to memorize thy name . " T ...
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... fome notice of him . STEEVENS . It is clear , from a subsequent passage , that the entry of Angus was here designed ; for in scene iii , he again enters with Roffe , and fays , - ८८ - We are fent " To give thee from our royal master ...
... fome notice of him . STEEVENS . It is clear , from a subsequent passage , that the entry of Angus was here designed ; for in scene iii , he again enters with Roffe , and fays , - ८८ - We are fent " To give thee from our royal master ...
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