The Plays of William Shakespeare ...J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... Hanmer reads , not improbably , change for horns his garlands . I am in doubt whether to change is not merely to dress , or to dress with changes of garlands . JOHNSON . So , Taylor , the water - poet , defcribing the habit of a coach ...
... Hanmer reads , not improbably , change for horns his garlands . I am in doubt whether to change is not merely to dress , or to dress with changes of garlands . JOHNSON . So , Taylor , the water - poet , defcribing the habit of a coach ...
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... Hanmer reads - They show to man the tailors of the earth ; comforting him therein , & c . I think the passage , with somewhat less alteration , for alteration is always dangerous , may stand thus - It shows to men the tailors of the ...
... Hanmer reads - They show to man the tailors of the earth ; comforting him therein , & c . I think the passage , with somewhat less alteration , for alteration is always dangerous , may stand thus - It shows to men the tailors of the ...
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... Hanmer , not understanding the word , reads , ray . See Vol . IV . p . 41 , n . 1. JOHNSON . I am not sure that the poet did not mean , was of heavenly origin . MALONE . Remains in ufe- ] The poet seems to allude to the legal ...
... Hanmer , not understanding the word , reads , ray . See Vol . IV . p . 41 , n . 1. JOHNSON . I am not sure that the poet did not mean , was of heavenly origin . MALONE . Remains in ufe- ] The poet seems to allude to the legal ...
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... Hanmer reads : -Spots on ermine , Or fires , by night's blackness . JOHNSON . The meaning feems to be - As the stars or spots of heaven are not obfcured , but rather rendered more bright , by the black- ness of the night , so neither is ...
... Hanmer reads : -Spots on ermine , Or fires , by night's blackness . JOHNSON . The meaning feems to be - As the stars or spots of heaven are not obfcured , but rather rendered more bright , by the black- ness of the night , so neither is ...
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... Hanmer , who thought the maturity of a boy an inconfiftent idea , has put : -who , immature in knowledge : but the words experience and judgment require that we read mature : though Dr. Warburton has received the emendation . By boys ...
... Hanmer , who thought the maturity of a boy an inconfiftent idea , has put : -who , immature in knowledge : but the words experience and judgment require that we read mature : though Dr. Warburton has received the emendation . By boys ...
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