The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... perhaps have written : is become the bellows , and the fan , To kindle and to cool a gypfy's luft . JOHNSON . In Lyly's Midas , 1592 , the bellows is used both to cool and to kindle : " Methinks Venus and Nature ftand with each of them ...
... perhaps have written : is become the bellows , and the fan , To kindle and to cool a gypfy's luft . JOHNSON . In Lyly's Midas , 1592 , the bellows is used both to cool and to kindle : " Methinks Venus and Nature ftand with each of them ...
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... Perhaps nothing more is neceffary here than a change of punc- tuation ; O my ! being ftill an exclamation frequently used in the Weft of England . HENLEY . Oh my ! in the provincial sense of it , is only an imperfect ex- clamation of Oh ...
... Perhaps nothing more is neceffary here than a change of punc- tuation ; O my ! being ftill an exclamation frequently used in the Weft of England . HENLEY . Oh my ! in the provincial sense of it , is only an imperfect ex- clamation of Oh ...
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... perhaps your subject rather means , whom being in fubjection to you , you can command at pleasure , " to do your bidding , " to affume the airs of coquetry , & c . Were not this coquet one of your attendants , I fhould fuppofe you ...
... perhaps your subject rather means , whom being in fubjection to you , you can command at pleasure , " to do your bidding , " to affume the airs of coquetry , & c . Were not this coquet one of your attendants , I fhould fuppofe you ...
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... Perhaps - Our great competitor . JOHNSON . Johnfon is certainly right in his conjecture that we ought to read " Our great competitor , " as this fpeech is addreffed to Lepidus , his partner in the empire . Competitor means here , as it ...
... Perhaps - Our great competitor . JOHNSON . Johnfon is certainly right in his conjecture that we ought to read " Our great competitor , " as this fpeech is addreffed to Lepidus , his partner in the empire . Competitor means here , as it ...
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... Perhaps another messenger fhould be noted here , as entering with fresh news . STEEVENS . 9 which they ear- ] To ear , is to plough ; a common metaphor . JoÁNSON . To ear , is not , however , at this time , a common word . I meet with ...
... Perhaps another messenger fhould be noted here , as entering with fresh news . STEEVENS . 9 which they ear- ] To ear , is to plough ; a common metaphor . JoÁNSON . To ear , is not , however , at this time , a common word . I meet with ...
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