The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 17Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1801 |
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... STEEVENS . continuate ] This word is used by many ancient English writers . Thus , by Chapman , in his verfion of the fourth book of the Odyssey : Her handmaids join'd in a continuate yell . " ' STEEVENS . He paffes , ] i . e . exceeds ...
... STEEVENS . continuate ] This word is used by many ancient English writers . Thus , by Chapman , in his verfion of the fourth book of the Odyssey : Her handmaids join'd in a continuate yell . " ' STEEVENS . He paffes , ] i . e . exceeds ...
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... STEEVENS . book has been prefented prefentment ] The patrons of Shakspeare's age do not ap- pear to have been all Timons . " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body , because forty fhillings I care not for , and above ...
... STEEVENS . book has been prefented prefentment ] The patrons of Shakspeare's age do not ap- pear to have been all Timons . " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body , because forty fhillings I care not for , and above ...
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... STEEVENS . 7 A thousand moral paintings I can show , ] Shakspeare seems to intend in this dialogue to express some competition between the two great arts of imitation . Whatever the poet declares himself to have shown , the painter ...
... STEEVENS . 7 A thousand moral paintings I can show , ] Shakspeare seems to intend in this dialogue to express some competition between the two great arts of imitation . Whatever the poet declares himself to have shown , the painter ...
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... STEEVENS . 3 -- which failing to him , ] Thus the fecond folio . The firft omits — to him , and confequently mutilates the verse . STEEVENS . 4 Periods his comfort . ] To period is , perhaps , a verb of Shak fpeare's introduction into ...
... STEEVENS . 3 -- which failing to him , ] Thus the fecond folio . The firft omits — to him , and confequently mutilates the verse . STEEVENS . 4 Periods his comfort . ] To period is , perhaps , a verb of Shak fpeare's introduction into ...
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... STEEVENS . 7 your honour ! ] The common addrefs to a lord in our author's time , was your honour , which was indifferently used with your lordship . See any old letter , or dedication of that age ; and Vol . XV . p . 366 , where a ...
... STEEVENS . 7 your honour ! ] The common addrefs to a lord in our author's time , was your honour , which was indifferently used with your lordship . See any old letter , or dedication of that age ; and Vol . XV . p . 366 , where a ...
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