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The plain meaning of the word being this : Put your skill in governing ( says the
Duke ) to the power wybicb " I give you to exercise it , and let them cvork together
. WARBURTON . Ibid . ] Sir ' Thomas Hanmer having caught from Mr. Thecbald a
...
The plain meaning of the word being this : Put your skill in governing ( says the
Duke ) to the power wybicb " I give you to exercise it , and let them cvork together
. WARBURTON . Ibid . ] Sir ' Thomas Hanmer having caught from Mr. Thecbald a
...
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Either this introduction has more folemnity than meaning , or it has a meaning
which I cannot discover . Whit is there peculiar in this , that a man's life informs
the observer of his bistory ? Might it be supposed that Shakespeare wrote this ?
Either this introduction has more folemnity than meaning , or it has a meaning
which I cannot discover . Whit is there peculiar in this , that a man's life informs
the observer of his bistory ? Might it be supposed that Shakespeare wrote this ?
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I suppose the meaning is , that there is too heavy a mass of big words laid upon a
Ilight subject . JOHNS . L. 19. You amaze me , ladies . 1 To amaze , here , is not
to astoni ! h or strike with wonder , but to perplex ; to confuse ; as , to put out of ...
I suppose the meaning is , that there is too heavy a mass of big words laid upon a
Ilight subject . JOHNS . L. 19. You amaze me , ladies . 1 To amaze , here , is not
to astoni ! h or strike with wonder , but to perplex ; to confuse ; as , to put out of ...
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REV . & JOHNS . P. 465. 1. 3. An absent argument . ] An argument is ufed for the
contents of a book , thence Shakespeare considered it - as meaning the subject ,
and then used it for subject in yet another sense , JOHNS . L. 18. Expedienily .
REV . & JOHNS . P. 465. 1. 3. An absent argument . ] An argument is ufed for the
contents of a book , thence Shakespeare considered it - as meaning the subject ,
and then used it for subject in yet another sense , JOHNS . L. 18. Expedienily .
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Mr. Warburton tells us the meaning is , Hold good my complexion ! that is , let me
not blush . Not to infift upon the impropriety of putting good , for kold out , or hold
good , the present occasion afforded nothing which might provoke the lady's ...
Mr. Warburton tells us the meaning is , Hold good my complexion ! that is , let me
not blush . Not to infift upon the impropriety of putting good , for kold out , or hold
good , the present occasion afforded nothing which might provoke the lady's ...
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| Title | The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Volume 2 The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1771 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2007 |
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