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... old reading may be justified in two ways . First of all , Percy , one of the most thorough scholars in Old English literature , remarks that in Old English 3 The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , THE TRAGEDY OF ...
... old reading may be justified in two ways . First of all , Percy , one of the most thorough scholars in Old English literature , remarks that in Old English 3 The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , THE TRAGEDY OF ...
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William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , And the continuance of their parents ' rage , Which , but their children's end , nought could remove Is now the two hours ' traffic of our stage ...
William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. The fearful passage of their death - mark'd love , And the continuance of their parents ' rage , Which , but their children's end , nought could remove Is now the two hours ' traffic of our stage ...
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... passage from Ben Jonson , we find the primary meaning of the expression - that of being fit for servile offices ; in a subsequent passage we have the secondary meaning - that of tamely submitting to an affront . Puntarvolo insults Shift ...
... passage from Ben Jonson , we find the primary meaning of the expression - that of being fit for servile offices ; in a subsequent passage we have the secondary meaning - that of tamely submitting to an affront . Puntarvolo insults Shift ...
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... passage in question is , " Madam , unless you coy it trick and trim , And play the civil wanton ere you yield , " etc .; where " civil " means grave , sober . The same author in his Never too Late , speak- ing of the courtesans of ...
... passage in question is , " Madam , unless you coy it trick and trim , And play the civil wanton ere you yield , " etc .; where " civil " means grave , sober . The same author in his Never too Late , speak- ing of the courtesans of ...
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... 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 described by Cotgrave , in a passage which has escaped the industry of ...
... 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 described by Cotgrave , in a passage which has escaped the industry of ...
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