The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 12J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Page 11
... feems anciently to have fignified what we now call a hackney ; a beaft employed in drudgery , opposed to a horse kept for fhow , or to be rid by its mafter . So , in a comedy called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Befides , I'll give ...
... feems anciently to have fignified what we now call a hackney ; a beaft employed in drudgery , opposed to a horse kept for fhow , or to be rid by its mafter . So , in a comedy called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Befides , I'll give ...
Page 12
... feems to have been a very common term for a man of vehemence and precipitation . Stanyhurst , who tranflated four books of Virgil , in 1584 , ren- ders the following line : Nec victoris heri tetigit captiva cubile . " To couch not ...
... feems to have been a very common term for a man of vehemence and precipitation . Stanyhurst , who tranflated four books of Virgil , in 1584 , ren- ders the following line : Nec victoris heri tetigit captiva cubile . " To couch not ...
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... feems not much to countenance fuch a fuppofition . I will venture to diftribute this paffage in a man- ner which will , I hope , feem more commodious ; but do not wish the reader to forget , that the most commodious is not always the ...
... feems not much to countenance fuch a fuppofition . I will venture to diftribute this paffage in a man- ner which will , I hope , feem more commodious ; but do not wish the reader to forget , that the most commodious is not always the ...
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... feems to mean that a barber can no more earn fixpence by his face - royal , than by the face ftamped on the coin called a royal ; the one requiring as little fhaving as the other . STEEVENS . If nothing be taken out of a royal , it will ...
... feems to mean that a barber can no more earn fixpence by his face - royal , than by the face ftamped on the coin called a royal ; the one requiring as little fhaving as the other . STEEVENS . If nothing be taken out of a royal , it will ...
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... feems to have been a made one , and defigned to afford fome apparent meaning . The author might have written - Double - done , ( or , as Mr. M. Mafon obferves , Double - down , ) from his making the fame charge twice in his books , or ...
... feems to have been a made one , and defigned to afford fome apparent meaning . The author might have written - Double - done , ( or , as Mr. M. Mafon obferves , Double - down , ) from his making the fame charge twice in his books , or ...
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