The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 6C. and A. Conrad, 1805 |
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... passages . That the poet designed the tinker's supposed lunacy should be of fourteen years standing at least , is evident upon two parallel passages in the play to that purpose . Theobald . The remark is just , but perhaps the ...
... passages . That the poet designed the tinker's supposed lunacy should be of fourteen years standing at least , is evident upon two parallel passages in the play to that purpose . Theobald . The remark is just , but perhaps the ...
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... passage , I think , should be read and pointed thus : Pisa , renowned for grave citizens , Gave me my being , and my father first , Vincentio his son , brought up in Florence , It TAMING OF THE SHREW . ACT I.....SCENE 1. ...
... passage , I think , should be read and pointed thus : Pisa , renowned for grave citizens , Gave me my being , and my father first , Vincentio his son , brought up in Florence , It TAMING OF THE SHREW . ACT I.....SCENE 1. ...
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... passage is evi- dently right . Mr. Steevens appears to have been a little absent when he wrote his note on it . He forgot that Italian was Gru- mio's native language , and that therefore he could not possibly mistake it for Latin . M ...
... passage is evi- dently right . Mr. Steevens appears to have been a little absent when he wrote his note on it . He forgot that Italian was Gru- mio's native language , and that therefore he could not possibly mistake it for Latin . M ...
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... passage in Mezeray , the French historian : - " portant meme sur les aiguillettes [ points ] des petites tetes de mort . " Malone . 3 as many diseases as two and fifty horses : ] I suspect this passage to be corrupt , though I know not ...
... passage in Mezeray , the French historian : - " portant meme sur les aiguillettes [ points ] des petites tetes de mort . " Malone . 3 as many diseases as two and fifty horses : ] I suspect this passage to be corrupt , though I know not ...
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... , and walk , knave walk . " The following passage in Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique , 1553 , shews that this was the meaning of the term : " Another good VOL . VI . E but a little , he will throw a figure in TAMING OF THE SHREW . 49.
... , and walk , knave walk . " The following passage in Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique , 1553 , shews that this was the meaning of the term : " Another good VOL . VI . E but a little , he will throw a figure in TAMING OF THE SHREW . 49.
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