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... LETTSOM , in a MS . marginal note in the copy of Dyce's " Re- marks , " & c . , in the present editor's possession , says : " Dyce himself , in his 2d ed . of Peele , vol . ii , p . 8 , 1. 1 , has printed same where the sense requires ...
... LETTSOM , in a MS . marginal note in the copy of Dyce's " Re- marks , " & c . , in the present editor's possession , says : " Dyce himself , in his 2d ed . of Peele , vol . ii , p . 8 , 1. 1 , has printed same where the sense requires ...
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... Lettsom has suggested this same reading proposed by White . 209. with beauty dies ] JOHNSON . She is rich , says Romeo , in beauty , and only poor in being subject to the lot of humanity , that her store , or riches , can be destroyed ...
... Lettsom has suggested this same reading proposed by White . 209. with beauty dies ] JOHNSON . She is rich , says Romeo , in beauty , and only poor in being subject to the lot of humanity , that her store , or riches , can be destroyed ...
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... LETTSOM . ... KEIGHTLEY . The plain meaning of this is that beauty was " her store ; " she had nothing but it ; poor praise indeed from a lover . I would read with Theobald . The same idea is expressed in the poet's first and following ...
... LETTSOM . ... KEIGHTLEY . The plain meaning of this is that beauty was " her store ; " she had nothing but it ; poor praise indeed from a lover . I would read with Theobald . The same idea is expressed in the poet's first and following ...
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