The Plays of William Shakspeare ...C. Bathurst, 1785 |
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... perhaps to the plague fent by Apollo on the Grecian army . JOHNSON . 6 -beef - witted lord ! ] So in Twelfth - Night : -I am a great eater of beef , and I believe that does harm to my wit . " STEEVENS . 1 Speak then , thou unfalted ...
... perhaps to the plague fent by Apollo on the Grecian army . JOHNSON . 6 -beef - witted lord ! ] So in Twelfth - Night : -I am a great eater of beef , and I believe that does harm to my wit . " STEEVENS . 1 Speak then , thou unfalted ...
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... perhaps formerly fome meaning at prefent unknown . In the following paffage in Lodge's Rofalynde or Euphues ' Golden Legacie , 1592 , it feems to fignify fomething very different from a pin or a bod- " His bonnet was green , whereon ...
... perhaps formerly fome meaning at prefent unknown . In the following paffage in Lodge's Rofalynde or Euphues ' Golden Legacie , 1592 , it feems to fignify fomething very different from a pin or a bod- " His bonnet was green , whereon ...
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... Perhaps the poet wrote : wrinkled eld . MALONE . • Add to my clamours ! ] Folio - clamour . MALONE . -diftafte- ] Corrupt ; change to a worfe ftate . JoHNSON , Aş As well my undertakings , as your counfels : But 60 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ,
... Perhaps the poet wrote : wrinkled eld . MALONE . • Add to my clamours ! ] Folio - clamour . MALONE . -diftafte- ] Corrupt ; change to a worfe ftate . JoHNSON , Aş As well my undertakings , as your counfels : But 60 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ,
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... So Hanmer . The other editions have invifible , which perhaps may be right , and may mean the doul of love invifible every where elfe . JOHNSON . Pan . Pan . You speak your fair pleasure , sweet queen 76 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA .
... So Hanmer . The other editions have invifible , which perhaps may be right , and may mean the doul of love invifible every where elfe . JOHNSON . Pan . Pan . You speak your fair pleasure , sweet queen 76 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA .
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... perhaps a quibble is intended . A fit was a part or divifion of a fong , fometimes a ftrain in music , and fometimes a measure in danc- ing . The reader will find it fufficiently illuftrated in the two former fenfes by Dr. Percy , in ...
... perhaps a quibble is intended . A fit was a part or divifion of a fong , fometimes a ftrain in music , and fometimes a measure in danc- ing . The reader will find it fufficiently illuftrated in the two former fenfes by Dr. Percy , in ...
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Achilles Afide againſt Agamemnon Ajax anfwer better Calchas caufe Clot Cloten Cordelia Creffida Cymbeline daughter defire Diomed doth Enter eringoes Exeunt Exit expreffion eyes faid falfe fame father fatire fecond feems feen fenfe fhall fhew fhould fifter fignifies filk fince firft firſt flain folio fome fool fpeak fpeech ftand ftill fuch fuppofe fweet fword Glofter Goneril Guiderius Hanmer hath heart Hector himſelf honour Iach Iachimo Imogen itſelf JOHNSON Kent king lady laft Lear lefs lord mafter MALONE means moft moſt muft muſt Neoptolemus night obferves paffage Pandarus Patroclus perfon Pifanio pleaſe Poft Pofthumus prefent Priam purpoſe quarto quartos read queen reafon Shakspeare ſhall ſhe ſpeak STEEVENS thee thefe THEOBALD Ther Therfites theſe thing thofe thoſe Troi Troilus ufed Ulyff underſtand uſed WARBURTON whofe word
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