The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... expression is fine , as imply- ing that idleness prevents the giving any form or character to the manners . WARBURTON . 6 some shallow story of deep love , How Leander cross'd the Hellespont . ] The poem of young Musæus , entitled Hero ...
... expression is fine , as imply- ing that idleness prevents the giving any form or character to the manners . WARBURTON . 6 some shallow story of deep love , How Leander cross'd the Hellespont . ] The poem of young Musæus , entitled Hero ...
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... expression , though now disused , signifying , don't make a laughing stock of me ; don't play upon me . The French have a phrase , Bailler foin en corne ; which Cotgrave thus interprets , To give one the boots ; to sell him a bargain ...
... expression , though now disused , signifying , don't make a laughing stock of me ; don't play upon me . The French have a phrase , Bailler foin en corne ; which Cotgrave thus interprets , To give one the boots ; to sell him a bargain ...
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... expression - caille coifée , and might be rendered in that language , mouton en corset . This appellation appears to have been as old as the time of king Henry III . " Item sequitur gravis pœna cor- poralis , sed sine amissione vitæ vel ...
... expression - caille coifée , and might be rendered in that language , mouton en corset . This appellation appears to have been as old as the time of king Henry III . " Item sequitur gravis pœna cor- poralis , sed sine amissione vitæ vel ...
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... " Here was thy father's bed , here in my breast . " MALONE . -written DOWN : ] To " write down , " is still a provincial expression for - to write . HENLEY . - Thus will I fold them one upon another ; Now SC . II . 25 OF VERONA .
... " Here was thy father's bed , here in my breast . " MALONE . -written DOWN : ] To " write down , " is still a provincial expression for - to write . HENLEY . - Thus will I fold them one upon another ; Now SC . II . 25 OF VERONA .
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... expression . JOHNSON . In Hampshire , and other western counties , for " I can't re- member it , " they say , " I can't mind it . " BLACKSTONE . Puttenham , in his Art of Poetry , 1589 , chap . 24 , speaking of Poetical Lamentations ...
... expression . JOHNSON . In Hampshire , and other western counties , for " I can't re- member it , " they say , " I can't mind it . " BLACKSTONE . Puttenham , in his Art of Poetry , 1589 , chap . 24 , speaking of Poetical Lamentations ...
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 100 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty lives with kindness ? Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling...