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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Ay , the heads of the maids , or their * maidenheads ; take it in what sense thou wilt . GRE . They must take it in sense , that feel it . SAM . Me they shall feel , while I am able to stand : and , ' tis known , I am a pretty piece of ...
Ay , the heads of the maids , or their * maidenheads ; take it in what sense thou wilt . GRE . They must take it in sense , that feel it . SAM . Me they shall feel , while I am able to stand : and , ' tis known , I am a pretty piece of ...
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Of these lines neither the sense nor occasion is very evident . He is not yet in love with an enemy ; and to love one and hate another is no such uncommon state , as can deserve all this toil of antithesis .
Of these lines neither the sense nor occasion is very evident . He is not yet in love with an enemy ; and to love one and hate another is no such uncommon state , as can deserve all this toil of antithesis .
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It is in this sense , and not in that of doubt , or dispute , that the word question is here used . HEATH . More into talk ; to make her unparalleled beauty more the subject of thought and conversation . Question means conversation .
It is in this sense , and not in that of doubt , or dispute , that the word question is here used . HEATH . More into talk ; to make her unparalleled beauty more the subject of thought and conversation . Question means conversation .
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Both the old and the new reading are philosophical_nonsense ; but they are both , and both equally , poetical sense . JOHNSON . I will not say that this passage , as it stands , is absolute nonsense ; but I think it very absurd , and am ...
Both the old and the new reading are philosophical_nonsense ; but they are both , and both equally , poetical sense . JOHNSON . I will not say that this passage , as it stands , is absolute nonsense ; but I think it very absurd , and am ...
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Come , go with me ; -Go , sirrah , trudge about Through fair Verona ; find those persons out , A very slight alteration will restore the clearest sense to this passage . Shakspeare might have written the lines thus : Search among view ...
Come , go with me ; -Go , sirrah , trudge about Through fair Verona ; find those persons out , A very slight alteration will restore the clearest sense to this passage . Shakspeare might have written the lines thus : Search among view ...
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