The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 15J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... propitious or favourable : " Siş bonus O , felixque tuis ! " Virg . Ecl . 5. a fenfe of the word which must have been unknown to Shakspeare , but was familiar to Jonfon . STEEVENS . Be fad , as we would make ye : Think 6 PROLOGUE .
... propitious or favourable : " Siş bonus O , felixque tuis ! " Virg . Ecl . 5. a fenfe of the word which must have been unknown to Shakspeare , but was familiar to Jonfon . STEEVENS . Be fad , as we would make ye : Think 6 PROLOGUE .
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... must be acknowledged , a very bad one , the last fyllable , ry , correfponding in found with fee . I thought Theobald right , till I obferved a couplet of the fame kind in the epilogue : " For this play at this time is only in " The ...
... must be acknowledged , a very bad one , the last fyllable , ry , correfponding in found with fee . I thought Theobald right , till I obferved a couplet of the fame kind in the epilogue : " For this play at this time is only in " The ...
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... must be founded as a monofyllable . It is well understood that old Ben had no fkill in the pronunciation of the French language ; and the scene before us appears to have had some touches from his pen . By genuine Shakspeare certes is ...
... must be founded as a monofyllable . It is well understood that old Ben had no fkill in the pronunciation of the French language ; and the scene before us appears to have had some touches from his pen . By genuine Shakspeare certes is ...
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... must fetch him in whom he papers down . — I don't understand it , unless this be the meaning . POPE . Wolfey published a lift of the feveral perfons whom he had appointed to attend on the King at this interview . See Hall's Chronicle ...
... must fetch him in whom he papers down . — I don't understand it , unless this be the meaning . POPE . Wolfey published a lift of the feveral perfons whom he had appointed to attend on the King at this interview . See Hall's Chronicle ...
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... must be left , I fear , to fome happier faga- city . If the ufage of our author's time could allow figure to be taken , as now , for dignity or importance , we might read : Whofe figure even this inftant cloud puts out . But I cannot ...
... must be left , I fear , to fome happier faga- city . If the ufage of our author's time could allow figure to be taken , as now , for dignity or importance , we might read : Whofe figure even this inftant cloud puts out . But I cannot ...
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Achilles Æneas againſt AGAM Agamemnon Ajax alfo anſwer Antony and Cleopatra becauſe buſineſs Calchas cardinal Creffida CRES defire Diomed doth Duke eringoes Exeunt faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhould firft firſt folio fome fpeech ftand ftate ftill ftrong fuch fuppofe fweet fword GENT Grecian Greeks Hanmer hath heaven HECT Hector Helen highneſs himſelf Holinfhed honour inftance itſelf JOHNSON KATH King Henry King Richard III king's lady lord Lord Chamberlain MALONE means meaſure Menelaus moft moſt muft muſt Neftor Neoptolemus noble obferves old copy paffage Pandarus Patroclus perfon play pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent Priam prince purpoſe quarto queen reafon ſay Shakspeare ſhall ſhe Sir Thomas Hanmer ſpeak STEEVENS thee thefe THEOBALD THER Therfites theſe thofe thoſe thou Troilus Trojan Troy Ulyffes ULYSS uſed WARBURTON whofe Wolfey word