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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Page 47
Draw dun ( a common name , as Mr. Douce observes , for a cart - horse ) out of the mire , seems to have been a game . In an old collection of Satyres , Epigrams , & c . I find it enumerated among other pastimes : " At shove - groate ...
Draw dun ( a common name , as Mr. Douce observes , for a cart - horse ) out of the mire , seems to have been a game . In an old collection of Satyres , Epigrams , & c . I find it enumerated among other pastimes : " At shove - groate ...
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Whereupon he became suitor for the reversion of the Custos - brevium office in the Common Pleas which the king willingly granted , it being the first suit he had in his life . " Indeed our poet has very rarely turned his satire against ...
Whereupon he became suitor for the reversion of the Custos - brevium office in the Common Pleas which the king willingly granted , it being the first suit he had in his life . " Indeed our poet has very rarely turned his satire against ...
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This was a common superstition ; and seems to have had its rise from the horrid disease called the Plica Polonica . WARBURTON . So , in Heywood's Iron Age , 1632 : " And when I shook these locks , now knotted all , " As bak'd in blood - ...
This was a common superstition ; and seems to have had its rise from the horrid disease called the Plica Polonica . WARBURTON . So , in Heywood's Iron Age , 1632 : " And when I shook these locks , now knotted all , " As bak'd in blood - ...
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6 ― They were common even in the time of Charles I. See Tempest , Act II . Sc . II . MALONE . They continued common much longer in many publick societies , particularly in colleges and inns of ...
6 ― They were common even in the time of Charles I. See Tempest , Act II . Sc . II . MALONE . They continued common much longer in many publick societies , particularly in colleges and inns of ...
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I know not how Capulet and his lady might agree , their ages were very disproportionate ; he has been past masking for thirty years , and her age , as she tells Juliet , is but eight - and - twenty . JOHNSON . Cousin was a common ...
I know not how Capulet and his lady might agree , their ages were very disproportionate ; he has been past masking for thirty years , and her age , as she tells Juliet , is but eight - and - twenty . JOHNSON . Cousin was a common ...
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