The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... characters who have no more of literature about them than Nym . So , Skinke , in Look about you , 1600 : " But pauca verba , Skinke . " Again , in Every Man in his Humour , where it is called the benchers ' phrafe . STEEVENS . SLEN . I ...
... characters who have no more of literature about them than Nym . So , Skinke , in Look about you , 1600 : " But pauca verba , Skinke . " Again , in Every Man in his Humour , where it is called the benchers ' phrafe . STEEVENS . SLEN . I ...
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... characters were filled by boys , to speak Small like a woman must have been a valuable qualification . So , in Marfton's What you will : " I was folicited to graunt him leave to play the lady in comedies presented by children ; but I ...
... characters were filled by boys , to speak Small like a woman must have been a valuable qualification . So , in Marfton's What you will : " I was folicited to graunt him leave to play the lady in comedies presented by children ; but I ...
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... characters to whom they do not belong . Printers , to fave trouble , keep the names of the fpeakers in each scene ready compofed , and are very liable to mistakes , when two names begin ( as in the present inftance ) with the fame ...
... characters to whom they do not belong . Printers , to fave trouble , keep the names of the fpeakers in each scene ready compofed , and are very liable to mistakes , when two names begin ( as in the present inftance ) with the fame ...
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... character ? I think not . The fimpleft creatures ( nay , even naturals , ) generally are very precife in the knowledge of festivals , and marking how the feafons run : and therefore I have ventured to fufpect our poet wrote Martlemas ...
... character ? I think not . The fimpleft creatures ( nay , even naturals , ) generally are very precife in the knowledge of festivals , and marking how the feafons run : and therefore I have ventured to fufpect our poet wrote Martlemas ...
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... character , had not forgotten his Chaucer . " The fame gentleman has fince informed me , that the paffage is not found in any of the ancient printed editions , but only in the MSS . STEEVENS . I imagine this phrase must have reached our ...
... character , had not forgotten his Chaucer . " The fame gentleman has fince informed me , that the paffage is not found in any of the ancient printed editions , but only in the MSS . STEEVENS . I imagine this phrase must have reached our ...
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