Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page viii
... shall not think my pains ill bestowed . - One obfervation , I now plainly perceive , will naturally lead on another , fo that ' tis of no great importance where I begin , the difficulty will be where to end . Let us then hear the ...
... shall not think my pains ill bestowed . - One obfervation , I now plainly perceive , will naturally lead on another , fo that ' tis of no great importance where I begin , the difficulty will be where to end . Let us then hear the ...
Page xviii
... shall we say to the moft correct English translation that ever was made ? " And the Lions - brake all their bones or ever " they came at the bottom of the den . " Dan . VI , 14.But let us fee this humorous prophecy . " When priests are ...
... shall we say to the moft correct English translation that ever was made ? " And the Lions - brake all their bones or ever " they came at the bottom of the den . " Dan . VI , 14.But let us fee this humorous prophecy . " When priests are ...
Page xix
... shall the lond of Albion " Be brought to great confufion . " Shakespeare has taken this prophecy ; but to make it more refemble the oracular refponfes of antiquity , and the prophetical ftile , he has artfully involved it in a feeming ...
... shall the lond of Albion " Be brought to great confufion . " Shakespeare has taken this prophecy ; but to make it more refemble the oracular refponfes of antiquity , and the prophetical ftile , he has artfully involved it in a feeming ...
Page xxi
... plural of al , and talle . See Hicks Grammat . Anglo - S . f . 16. In Chaucer , aldirmoft is most of all . And in the prologue of the Canterbury tales , y . 801 . b 3 - " Shall " Shall have a fupper at our alder cost . PREFACE . xxi.
... plural of al , and talle . See Hicks Grammat . Anglo - S . f . 16. In Chaucer , aldirmoft is most of all . And in the prologue of the Canterbury tales , y . 801 . b 3 - " Shall " Shall have a fupper at our alder cost . PREFACE . xxi.
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John Upton. " Shall have a fupper at our alder cost . ” i . e . at the cost of us all . IN Macbeth , Act III . " Lady . You have difplac'd the mirth , broke " the good meeting " With most admir'd diforder . " Macb . Can fuch things be ...
John Upton. " Shall have a fupper at our alder cost . ” i . e . at the cost of us all . IN Macbeth , Act III . " Lady . You have difplac'd the mirth , broke " the good meeting " With most admir'd diforder . " Macb . Can fuch things be ...
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