The Plays of William Shakespeare ...J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... paffage , seems to have the old Saxon fignification 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 ...
... paffage , seems to have the old Saxon fignification 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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... paffage 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 : " You must be well contented ...
... paffage 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 : " You must be well contented ...
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... paffage appears to me to be this : " O , my oblivion , as if it were another Antony , possesses me so entirely , that I quite forget myself . " M. MASON . I have not the smallest doubt that Mr. Steevens's explanation of this paffage is ...
... paffage appears to me to be this : " O , my oblivion , as if it were another Antony , possesses me so entirely , that I quite forget myself . " M. MASON . I have not the smallest doubt that Mr. Steevens's explanation of this paffage is ...
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... paffage , which I believe to be corrupt , I have nothing fatisfactory to propose . It is clear , that whatever epithet was used , it was intended as descriptive of a beautiful horfe , such ( we may presume ) as our author has defcribed ...
... paffage , which I believe to be corrupt , I have nothing fatisfactory to propose . It is clear , that whatever epithet was used , it was intended as descriptive of a beautiful horfe , such ( we may presume ) as our author has defcribed ...
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... paffage " you were the word of war : i.e. your name was em- ployed by them to draw troops to their standard ? " On the other hand , " their conteftation derived its theme or fubject from you ; you were their word of war , " affords a ...
... paffage " you were the word of war : i.e. your name was em- ployed by them to draw troops to their standard ? " On the other hand , " their conteftation derived its theme or fubject from you ; you were their word of war , " affords a ...
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