The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 14Rwington, 1821 |
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... passage find . " Again , in Decker's Honest Whore , already quoted : 66 66 Cut off his beard- . " Fye , fye ; idle , idle ; he's no Frenchman , to fret at the loss of little scal'd hair . " In the North they say scale the corn , i . e ...
... passage find . " Again , in Decker's Honest Whore , already quoted : 66 66 Cut off his beard- . " Fye , fye ; idle , idle ; he's no Frenchman , to fret at the loss of little scal'd hair . " In the North they say scale the corn , i . e ...
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... passage . used in Richard II . Act III . Sc . IV .: " Yea , distaff - women manage rusty bills " Against thy seat . " - It should be observed too , that one of the Citizens had just be- fore characterized these principal parts of the ...
... passage . used in Richard II . Act III . Sc . IV .: " Yea , distaff - women manage rusty bills " Against thy seat . " - It should be observed too , that one of the Citizens had just be- fore characterized these principal parts of the ...
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... passage , Steevens asserts , that quarry means game pursued or killed , and supports that opinion by a passage in Massinger's Guardian : and from thence I suppose the word was used to express a heap of slaughtered persons . In the ...
... passage , Steevens asserts , that quarry means game pursued or killed , and supports that opinion by a passage in Massinger's Guardian : and from thence I suppose the word was used to express a heap of slaughtered persons . In the ...
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... Venice : " And I am prest unto it . " See note on this passage , vol . v . p . 17. STEEVENS . The spelling of the old copy proves nothing , for participles were Whether for east , or west : The dearth is 24 ACT L. CORIOLANUS .
... Venice : " And I am prest unto it . " See note on this passage , vol . v . p . 17. STEEVENS . The spelling of the old copy proves nothing , for participles were Whether for east , or west : The dearth is 24 ACT L. CORIOLANUS .
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... passage , like almost every other abrupt sentence in these plays , was rendered unintelligible in the old copy by inaccurate punctuation . See vol . iv . p . 309 , n . 6 ; vol . vii . p . 125 , n . 8 . For the present regulation I am ...
... passage , like almost every other abrupt sentence in these plays , was rendered unintelligible in the old copy by inaccurate punctuation . See vol . iv . p . 309 , n . 6 ; vol . vii . p . 125 , n . 8 . For the present regulation I am ...
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