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... Walker's volumes can fail to be interested in the development of a law of pronunciation and rhythm which that acute critic so narrowly missed , and which here , for the first time , has found an expositor whose name has been for so many ...
... Walker's volumes can fail to be interested in the development of a law of pronunciation and rhythm which that acute critic so narrowly missed , and which here , for the first time , has found an expositor whose name has been for so many ...
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... WALKER : Shakespeare's Versification RICHARD GRANT WHITE : Shakespeare's Scholar .. 1853 1854 1854 HALLAM : Introduction to the Literature of Europe ( Fifth Edition ) MAGINN Shakespeare Papers 1855 1856 6 MITFORD : Cursory Notes on ...
... WALKER : Shakespeare's Versification RICHARD GRANT WHITE : Shakespeare's Scholar .. 1853 1854 1854 HALLAM : Introduction to the Literature of Europe ( Fifth Edition ) MAGINN Shakespeare Papers 1855 1856 6 MITFORD : Cursory Notes on ...
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... WALKER . Should not these words be spoken aside ? 55. thy swashing blow . ] STEEV . Jonson in his Staple of News : " I do confess a swashing blow . " Again in As You Like It : I , iii , 122. To swash seems to have meant to be a bully ...
... WALKER . Should not these words be spoken aside ? 55. thy swashing blow . ] STEEV . Jonson in his Staple of News : " I do confess a swashing blow . " Again in As You Like It : I , iii , 122. To swash seems to have meant to be a bully ...
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... Walker conj . 73. one ] Qq . a Ff , Rowe , & c . Knt . Ulr . Del . Dyce ( ed . 1 ) , White . Enter Prince .... ] Enter Prince Eskales Qq Ff . ( Escalus . Cambr ) . After line 74 Coll ( ed . 2 ) . 75. steel , - ] Capell . steel- Rowe ...
... Walker conj . 73. one ] Qq . a Ff , Rowe , & c . Knt . Ulr . Del . Dyce ( ed . 1 ) , White . Enter Prince .... ] Enter Prince Eskales Qq Ff . ( Escalus . Cambr ) . After line 74 Coll ( ed . 2 ) . 75. steel , - ] Capell . steel- Rowe ...
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... Walker ( ' Crit . ' vol . I , p . 24 ) " grave - beseeming ; " i . e . beseeming gravity , σεμvoñpeñεīs . ( Compare Hamlet IV , vii : 66 for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears , Than settled age his sables ...
... Walker ( ' Crit . ' vol . I , p . 24 ) " grave - beseeming ; " i . e . beseeming gravity , σεμvoñpeñεīs . ( Compare Hamlet IV , vii : 66 for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears , Than settled age his sables ...
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