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... appears to me of much higher authority than that of the Quartos and Folios . Of course the case is very different in doubtful or disputed passages , where the student should have before him every aid that the old copies can afford , and ...
... appears to me of much higher authority than that of the Quartos and Folios . Of course the case is very different in doubtful or disputed passages , where the student should have before him every aid that the old copies can afford , and ...
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... appears to have been common in our author's time . " What swearing is there " ( says Decker , describing the groups that frequented the walks of St. Paul's Church ) , " what shouldering , what justling , what jeering , Sam . I do bite ...
... appears to have been common in our author's time . " What swearing is there " ( says Decker , describing the groups that frequented the walks of St. Paul's Church ) , " what shouldering , what justling , what jeering , Sam . I do bite ...
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... appears to us the identity of biting the thumb and the fico ; but the passage in Lodge's " Wits Miserie " clearly shows that the customs were one and the same . SING . The mode in which this contemptuous action was performed is thus ...
... appears to us the identity of biting the thumb and the fico ; but the passage in Lodge's " Wits Miserie " clearly shows that the customs were one and the same . SING . The mode in which this contemptuous action was performed is thus ...
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... this speech has with manifest error the prefix Offi [ cer ] . 66. Clubs ] MAL . It appears from many of our old dramas that it was a common Enter old CAPULET in his gown , and LADY Capulet ACT I , SC . i . ] II ROMEO AND JULIET .
... this speech has with manifest error the prefix Offi [ cer ] . 66. Clubs ] MAL . It appears from many of our old dramas that it was a common Enter old CAPULET in his gown , and LADY Capulet ACT I , SC . i . ] II ROMEO AND JULIET .
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... appears so gentle , should be a tyrant . It is no less to be lamented , adds Romeo , that the blind god should yet be able to direct his arrows at those whom he wishes to hit , -that he should wound whomever he wills or desires to wound ...
... appears so gentle , should be a tyrant . It is no less to be lamented , adds Romeo , that the blind god should yet be able to direct his arrows at those whom he wishes to hit , -that he should wound whomever he wills or desires to wound ...
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