A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 1873J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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... common book in this country , and because to this hour it retains a certain hold upon the stage , and influences disastrously the acting of Macbeth . It has , moreover , supplied not a few changes of the text in the editions of the ...
... common book in this country , and because to this hour it retains a certain hold upon the stage , and influences disastrously the acting of Macbeth . It has , moreover , supplied not a few changes of the text in the editions of the ...
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... common lot ; I can only say that I have spared neither time nor labour in aiming at perfection , and for all failures in my attempts to reach that unattainable standard my apologies may be presumed . It is with no slight degree of ...
... common lot ; I can only say that I have spared neither time nor labour in aiming at perfection , and for all failures in my attempts to reach that unattainable standard my apologies may be presumed . It is with no slight degree of ...
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... common French dictionaries , is in the latest eds . of the dictionary of the Academy , both as substantive and adjective . Explained étourdi . ' COLLIER . It was in common use in our language , and for the purposes of the stage , before ...
... common French dictionaries , is in the latest eds . of the dictionary of the Academy , both as substantive and adjective . Explained étourdi . ' COLLIER . It was in common use in our language , and for the purposes of the stage , before ...
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... common a name for a cat as Towser ' for a dog , or ' Bayard ' for a horse . Cats played an important part in witchcraft . • CLARENDON . It means a gray cat . Malkin ' is a diminutive of Mary . ' ' Mau- kin , ' the same word , is still ...
... common a name for a cat as Towser ' for a dog , or ' Bayard ' for a horse . Cats played an important part in witchcraft . • CLARENDON . It means a gray cat . Malkin ' is a diminutive of Mary . ' ' Mau- kin , ' the same word , is still ...
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... common foot - soldier . WALKER ( Vers . p . 182 ) . In this line , if nothing be lost , the e in ' sergeant ' is pronounced as a separate syllable . 4 , 5. Who ... friend ] WALKER ( Crit . iii , 250 ) . One might suggest ' Hail , my ...
... common foot - soldier . WALKER ( Vers . p . 182 ) . In this line , if nothing be lost , the e in ' sergeant ' is pronounced as a separate syllable . 4 , 5. Who ... friend ] WALKER ( Crit . iii , 250 ) . One might suggest ' Hail , my ...
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ABBOTT ambition appears BAILEY ii Banq Banquo blood called castle Cawdor character CLARENDON Coll COLLIER Compare conj Cotgrave crime crown dagger death deed DELIUS doubt drama Duncan Dunsinane Dyce Edition ELWIN English Enter Macbeth evil Exeunt Exit expression eyes fear feeling Fleance Ghost give hand HARRY ROWE hath haue heart HEATH heaven Hecate Holinshed honour horror Huds human HUNTER husband Johns JOHNSON king Ktly Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff LETTSOM lord Macb Macd Macduff Mach Malcolm MALONE means mind murder nature night noble passage perhaps play poet Pope present Ross scene Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sing Siward sleep speak spirits STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS thane Thane of Cawdor thee Theob thou thought tion tragedy verb vnto WALKER Crit Warb weird sisters White wife witches word
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Page 398 - Mackbeth 1 that had ysurped the crowne of Scotland, and, that doone, placed Malcolme surnamed Camoir, the sonne of Duncane, sometime king of Scotland, in the gouernement of that realme, who afterward slue the said Mackbeth, and then reigned in quiet . . . It is recorded also, that, in the foresaid battell...