The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 18J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... folio given to Marcellus . MALONE . the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I found it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : " I promise ere the minutes ...
... folio given to Marcellus . MALONE . the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I found it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : " I promise ere the minutes ...
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... folio -just . STEEvens . The correction was probably made by the author . JOHNSON . In the folio we sometimes find a familiar word substituted for one more ancient . MALOne . Jump and just were synonymous in the time of Shakspeare . Ben ...
... folio -just . STEEvens . The correction was probably made by the author . JOHNSON . In the folio we sometimes find a familiar word substituted for one more ancient . MALOne . Jump and just were synonymous in the time of Shakspeare . Ben ...
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... folio reads - as by the same co- venant for which the late editions have given us as by that covenant . Co - mart is , I suppose , a joint bargain , a word perhaps of our poet's coinage . A mart signifying a great fair or market , he ...
... folio reads - as by the same co- venant for which the late editions have given us as by that covenant . Co - mart is , I suppose , a joint bargain , a word perhaps of our poet's coinage . A mart signifying a great fair or market , he ...
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... folio compulsative . STEEVENS . 9 - romage - ] - Tumultuous hurry . JOHNSON . Commonly written - rummage . I am not , however , certain that the word romage has been properly explained . The fol- lowing passage in Hackluyt's Voyages ...
... folio compulsative . STEEVENS . 9 - romage - ] - Tumultuous hurry . JOHNSON . Commonly written - rummage . I am not , however , certain that the word romage has been properly explained . The fol- lowing passage in Hackluyt's Voyages ...
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... folio edition of 1623. The omissions leave the play sometimes better and sometimes worse , and seem made only for the sake of abbrevia- tion . JOHNSON . It may be worth while to observe , that the title pages of the first quartos in ...
... folio edition of 1623. The omissions leave the play sometimes better and sometimes worse , and seem made only for the sake of abbrevia- tion . JOHNSON . It may be worth while to observe , that the title pages of the first quartos in ...
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