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 6 |
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STEEVENS . This story was well known to the English poets before the time of Shakspeare . In an old collection of poems , called A gorgeous Gallery of gallant Inventions , 1578 , I find it mentioned : " Sir Romeus ' annoy but trifle ...
STEEVENS . This story was well known to the English poets before the time of Shakspeare . In an old collection of poems , called A gorgeous Gallery of gallant Inventions , 1578 , I find it mentioned : " Sir Romeus ' annoy but trifle ...
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STEEVENS . This phrase continued to be in use down to the middle of the last century . In a little satirical piece of Sir John Birkenhead , intitled , Two Centuries [ of Books ] of St. Paul's Churchyard , & c . published after the death ...
STEEVENS . This phrase continued to be in use down to the middle of the last century . In a little satirical piece of Sir John Birkenhead , intitled , Two Centuries [ of Books ] of St. Paul's Churchyard , & c . published after the death ...
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STEEVENS . The little sword was probably nothing more than a dagger . MALONE . 66 3 Instead of this scene , in the quarto there is merely the following stage direction : They draw , to them enters Tybalt , they fight , to them the ...
STEEVENS . The little sword was probably nothing more than a dagger . MALONE . 66 3 Instead of this scene , in the quarto there is merely the following stage direction : They draw , to them enters Tybalt , they fight , to them the ...
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STEEvens . 9 thou canst not teach me to forget . ] " Of all afflictions taught a lover yet , " " Tis sure the hardest science , to forget . " Pope's Eloisa . STEEVENS . 1 AND Montague is bound- ] This speech is not in the first quarto .
STEEvens . 9 thou canst not teach me to forget . ] " Of all afflictions taught a lover yet , " " Tis sure the hardest science , to forget . " Pope's Eloisa . STEEVENS . 1 AND Montague is bound- ] This speech is not in the first quarto .
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STEEVENS . 9 66 a man of wax . ] So , in Wily Beguiled : 66 Why , he's a man as one should picture him in wax . ” STEEVENS . —a man of wax . " Well made , as if he had been modelled in wax , as Mr. Steevens by a happy quotation has ...
STEEVENS . 9 66 a man of wax . ] So , in Wily Beguiled : 66 Why , he's a man as one should picture him in wax . ” STEEVENS . —a man of wax . " Well made , as if he had been modelled in wax , as Mr. Steevens by a happy quotation has ...
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