The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... passage , seems to have the old Saxon signification of without , unless , except . Antony , says the queen , will recollect his thoughts . Unless kept , he replies , in commotion by Cleopatra . JOHNSON . What could Cleopatra mean by ...
... passage , seems to have the old Saxon signification of without , unless , except . Antony , says the queen , will recollect his thoughts . Unless kept , he replies , in commotion by Cleopatra . JOHNSON . What could Cleopatra mean by ...
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... passage will be-- Charmian wishes for a son who may arrive at such power and dominion that the proudest and fiercest monarchs of the earth may be brought under his yoke . STEEVENS . I love long life better than figs . ] This is a ...
... passage will be-- Charmian wishes for a son who may arrive at such power and dominion that the proudest and fiercest monarchs of the earth may be brought under his yoke . STEEVENS . I love long life better than figs . ] This is a ...
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... passage is : " When our pregnant minds lie idle and untilled , they bring forth weeds ; but the telling us of our faults is a kind of culture to them . " The pro- noun our before quick , shows that the substantive to which it refers ...
... passage is : " When our pregnant minds lie idle and untilled , they bring forth weeds ; but the telling us of our faults is a kind of culture to them . " The pro- noun our before quick , shows that the substantive to which it refers ...
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... passage . The explanation which Dr. War- burton has offered is such , that I can add nothing to it ; yet , perhaps , Shakspeare , who was less learned than his commen- tator , meant only , that our pleasures , as they are revolved in ...
... passage . The explanation which Dr. War- burton has offered is such , that I can add nothing to it ; yet , perhaps , Shakspeare , who was less learned than his commen- tator , meant only , that our pleasures , as they are revolved in ...
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... passage to be corrupt , because the diction is different from that of the present day . The arrangement of the text was the phraseology of Shakspeare , and probably of his time . So , in King Henry VIII : 66 You must be well contented ...
... passage to be corrupt , because the diction is different from that of the present day . The arrangement of the text was the phraseology of Shakspeare , and probably of his time . So , in King Henry VIII : 66 You must be well contented ...
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