Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks Upon the Explanations and Amendments of the Commentators in the Editions of 1785, 1790, 1793W. Bulmer and Company, 1805 - 375 pages |
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... expression of joy . A similar sentiment occurs in Terence : Proh Jupiter ! Nunc tempus profecto est , cum perpeti me possum interfici , Ne hoc gaudium contaminet vita ægritudine aliquâ . EUNUCH . Act III . Sc . v . I wonder Mr. Steevens ...
... expression of joy . A similar sentiment occurs in Terence : Proh Jupiter ! Nunc tempus profecto est , cum perpeti me possum interfici , Ne hoc gaudium contaminet vita ægritudine aliquâ . EUNUCH . Act III . Sc . v . I wonder Mr. Steevens ...
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... expression ap- pears to me very harsh . Neither do I see why yoaks should become the forest better than the town , though I can conceive why oaks should . For these reasons I am inclined to retain oaks , understanding the expression as ...
... expression ap- pears to me very harsh . Neither do I see why yoaks should become the forest better than the town , though I can conceive why oaks should . For these reasons I am inclined to retain oaks , understanding the expression as ...
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... EXPRESSION , AND THE GOOD SENSE IN THE THOUGHT , ALL CONCUR TO RECOMMEND THESE TWO LINES TO THE READER'S NOTICE . " The lines will , I doubt not , strike you , and every " man of common sense , as utterly destitute of every quality this ...
... EXPRESSION , AND THE GOOD SENSE IN THE THOUGHT , ALL CONCUR TO RECOMMEND THESE TWO LINES TO THE READER'S NOTICE . " The lines will , I doubt not , strike you , and every " man of common sense , as utterly destitute of every quality this ...
Page 67
... expression taken in " its direct sense is much more humourous . " Such notes make one sick . We shall by and " by be informed , when Hamlet says mother , he means capital bawd , because Mother Needham's " character is well known ...
... expression taken in " its direct sense is much more humourous . " Such notes make one sick . We shall by and " by be informed , when Hamlet says mother , he means capital bawd , because Mother Needham's " character is well known ...
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... expression , so understood , is , I admit , licentious . I cannot think Mr. Steevens's is the true explanation . P. 217. - 68. - 488 . Unto the tranect , to the common ferry Which trades to Venice . I incline to read traject , with the ...
... expression , so understood , is , I admit , licentious . I cannot think Mr. Steevens's is the true explanation . P. 217. - 68. - 488 . Unto the tranect , to the common ferry Which trades to Venice . I incline to read traject , with the ...
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