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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... editors arbitrarily read - if ' twere not known in council : -but I believe Falstaff quibbles between council and counsel . The latter fignifies fecrecy . So , in Hamlet : " The players cannot keep counfel , they'll tell all ...
... editors arbitrarily read - if ' twere not known in council : -but I believe Falstaff quibbles between council and counsel . The latter fignifies fecrecy . So , in Hamlet : " The players cannot keep counfel , they'll tell all ...
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... editors read- " parcel of the mind . " To be parcel of any thing , is an expreffion that often occurs in the old plays . So , in Decker's Satiromaftix : " And make damnation parcel of your oath . " Again , in Tamburlaine , 1590 : " To ...
... editors read- " parcel of the mind . " To be parcel of any thing , is an expreffion that often occurs in the old plays . So , in Decker's Satiromaftix : " And make damnation parcel of your oath . " Again , in Tamburlaine , 1590 : " To ...
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... editors in their fagacity have murdered a jeft here . It is defigned , no doubt , that Slender fhould fay decreafe , inftead of increafe ; and diffolved and dissolutely , inftead of refolved and refolutely : but to make him say , on the ...
... editors in their fagacity have murdered a jeft here . It is defigned , no doubt , that Slender fhould fay decreafe , inftead of increafe ; and diffolved and dissolutely , inftead of refolved and refolutely : but to make him say , on the ...
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... Pheezar was a made word from pheeze . " I'll pheeze you , " fays Sly to the Hoftefs , in The Taming of the Shrew . MALONE . 1 - faid I well , ] The learned editor of the Canterbury FAL . Do fo , good mine hoft . HOST 36 MERRY WIVES.
... Pheezar was a made word from pheeze . " I'll pheeze you , " fays Sly to the Hoftefs , in The Taming of the Shrew . MALONE . 1 - faid I well , ] The learned editor of the Canterbury FAL . Do fo , good mine hoft . HOST 36 MERRY WIVES.
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... editors read- " fome ftain in me , " but , I think , unneceffarily . A fimilar expreffion occurs in The Winter's Tale : " With what encounter fo uncurrent have I " Strain'd to appear thus ? " And again , in Timon : 3 66 a noble nature ...
... editors read- " fome ftain in me , " but , I think , unneceffarily . A fimilar expreffion occurs in The Winter's Tale : " With what encounter fo uncurrent have I " Strain'd to appear thus ? " And again , in Timon : 3 66 a noble nature ...
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