The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... used in Hamlet , A & t I. fc . iii : 66 -Things rank and grofs in nature " Poffefs it merely . " Again , in Ben Jonfon's Poetafter : 68 • at request " Of fome mere friends , fome honourable Romans . " STEEVENS . Though every drop of ...
... used in Hamlet , A & t I. fc . iii : 66 -Things rank and grofs in nature " Poffefs it merely . " Again , in Ben Jonfon's Poetafter : 68 • at request " Of fome mere friends , fome honourable Romans . " STEEVENS . Though every drop of ...
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... used , with this fenfe , by Chaucer . Hence the fubftantive medley . The modern and familiar phrafe by which that of Miranda may be explained , is - never entered my thoughts -never came into my head . STEEVENS . It fhould rather mean ...
... used , with this fenfe , by Chaucer . Hence the fubftantive medley . The modern and familiar phrafe by which that of Miranda may be explained , is - never entered my thoughts -never came into my head . STEEVENS . It fhould rather mean ...
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... used as a diffyllable , in the second as a monofyllable . But this is not a licence peculiar to the profody of Shakspeare . In the fecond book of Sidney's Arcadia are the following lines , exhibiting the fame word with a fimilar ...
... used as a diffyllable , in the second as a monofyllable . But this is not a licence peculiar to the profody of Shakspeare . In the fecond book of Sidney's Arcadia are the following lines , exhibiting the fame word with a fimilar ...
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... used by sportsmen in the North when they correct a dog for misbehaviour in pursuing the game . This explanation is warranted by the following paffage in Othello , A & t II . fc . i : " If this poor trafh of Venice , whom I trash " For ...
... used by sportsmen in the North when they correct a dog for misbehaviour in pursuing the game . This explanation is warranted by the following paffage in Othello , A & t II . fc . i : " If this poor trafh of Venice , whom I trash " For ...
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... used in ruftic language of drops falling upon water . Dr. Warburton reads mock'd ; the Oxford edition brack'd . JOHNSON . Verftegan , p . 61. fpeaking of beer , fays " So the overdecking or covering of beer came to be called berham ...
... used in ruftic language of drops falling upon water . Dr. Warburton reads mock'd ; the Oxford edition brack'd . JOHNSON . Verftegan , p . 61. fpeaking of beer , fays " So the overdecking or covering of beer came to be called berham ...
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