The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: ComediesC. Knight, 1842 |
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... passage was once thought to allude to the death of Spenser . But the misfortunes and the death of Spenser did not take place till 1599. Even if the allusion were inserted between the first produc- * Literature of Europe , vol . ii . , p ...
... passage was once thought to allude to the death of Spenser . But the misfortunes and the death of Spenser did not take place till 1599. Even if the allusion were inserted between the first produc- * Literature of Europe , vol . ii . , p ...
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... passage in Cymbeline : - " Whom heavens , in justice , ( both on her and hers , ) Have laid most heavy hand . " ( on . ) The same elliptical construction occurs in Othello's speech to the Senate : - " What conjurations and what mighty ...
... passage in Cymbeline : - " Whom heavens , in justice , ( both on her and hers , ) Have laid most heavy hand . " ( on . ) The same elliptical construction occurs in Othello's speech to the Senate : - " What conjurations and what mighty ...
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... passages in our poet's dramas ; and this is a solitary example of the use of momentany , and that only in the quartos . The reading of the folio is invariably momentary . Collied - black , smutted . This is a word still in use in the ...
... passages in our poet's dramas ; and this is a solitary example of the use of momentany , and that only in the quartos . The reading of the folio is invariably momentary . Collied - black , smutted . This is a word still in use in the ...
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... passages ; as in Hamlet , — " It wafts you to a more removed ground ; " and in As You Like It ' - " Your accent is somewhat finer than you could pur- chase in so removed a dwelling . " And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen ...
... passages ; as in Hamlet , — " It wafts you to a more removed ground ; " and in As You Like It ' - " Your accent is somewhat finer than you could pur- chase in so removed a dwelling . " And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen ...
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... passage in Heywood's Apology for Actors ' which strikingly exhibits the Hercules of the drama for the multitude , - " fighting with Hydra , murdering Geryon , slaughtering Diomed , wounding the Stymphalides , killing the Centaurs ...
... passage in Heywood's Apology for Actors ' which strikingly exhibits the Hercules of the drama for the multitude , - " fighting with Hydra , murdering Geryon , slaughtering Diomed , wounding the Stymphalides , killing the Centaurs ...
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