The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... meet with Shakspeare's phrafe in a comedy , call'd A Match at Midnight , 1633- " I fhall have eggs for my money ; I must hang myself . " STEEVENS . Leontes feems only to afk his fon if he would fly from an enemy . In the following ...
... meet with Shakspeare's phrafe in a comedy , call'd A Match at Midnight , 1633- " I fhall have eggs for my money ; I must hang myself . " STEEVENS . Leontes feems only to afk his fon if he would fly from an enemy . In the following ...
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... meet with the fame fentiment in The Merchant of Venice : " You may as well go ftand upon the beach , And bid the main flood ' bate his usual height . ” The fabrick of his folly ; whose foundation Is pil'd DOUCE WINTER'S TALE . 43 Turn ...
... meet with the fame fentiment in The Merchant of Venice : " You may as well go ftand upon the beach , And bid the main flood ' bate his usual height . ” The fabrick of his folly ; whose foundation Is pil'd DOUCE WINTER'S TALE . 43 Turn ...
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... meet with a fimilar phrafeology in Twelfth - Night : " Do me this courteous office , as to know of the knight , what my offence to him is ; it is fomething of my negligence , nothing of my purpose . " MALONE . " 2. LADY . And why fo ...
... meet with a fimilar phrafeology in Twelfth - Night : " Do me this courteous office , as to know of the knight , what my offence to him is ; it is fomething of my negligence , nothing of my purpose . " MALONE . " 2. LADY . And why fo ...
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... meet with the following inftance in Glapthorne's Wit in a Conftable , 1639 : " Your frequent drinking country ale with lant in't . " And , in Shakspeare's time , to drink a lady's health in urine ap- pears to have been esteemed an act ...
... meet with the following inftance in Glapthorne's Wit in a Conftable , 1639 : " Your frequent drinking country ale with lant in't . " And , in Shakspeare's time , to drink a lady's health in urine ap- pears to have been esteemed an act ...
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... meet for this great errand : Please your ladyship To vifit the next room , I'll presently Acquaint the queen of your moft noble offer ; Who , but to - day , hammer'd of this design ; But durft not tempt a minister of honour , Left fhe ...
... meet for this great errand : Please your ladyship To vifit the next room , I'll presently Acquaint the queen of your moft noble offer ; Who , but to - day , hammer'd of this design ; But durft not tempt a minister of honour , Left fhe ...
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