The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 15C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... folio given to Marcellus . Malone . 8 the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I find it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : " I promise ere the ...
... folio given to Marcellus . Malone . 8 the minutes of this night ; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I find it in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : " I promise ere the ...
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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 . Malone . 5 Of unimproved & c . ] Full of unimproved mettle , is full of spirit not regulated or guided by knowledge or experience . Johnson . 6 Shark'd up a list & c . ] I believe , to shark up means to pick up without ...
... folio . Malone . 5 Of unimproved & c . ] Full of unimproved mettle , is full of spirit not regulated or guided by knowledge or experience . Johnson . 6 Shark'd up a list & c . ] I believe , to shark up means to pick up without ...
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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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... folio . By the quartos , therefore , our imperfect text is supplied ; for an intermediate verse being evidently lost , it were idle to attempt a union that never was in- tended . I have therefore signified the supposed deficiency by a ...
... folio . By the quartos , therefore , our imperfect text is supplied ; for an intermediate verse being evidently lost , it were idle to attempt a union that never was in- tended . I have therefore signified the supposed deficiency by a ...
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