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... History , ' to use Collier's * Observations and Conjectures upon some Passages of Shakespeare , Oxford , 1766 , p . 19 . f Works ; Foure Letters , i , 202 , ed . Grosart . happy phrase . This is the style whereof we must PREFACE ix.
... History , ' to use Collier's * Observations and Conjectures upon some Passages of Shakespeare , Oxford , 1766 , p . 19 . f Works ; Foure Letters , i , 202 , ed . Grosart . happy phrase . This is the style whereof we must PREFACE ix.
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... Collier's Reprint in Shakespeare's Library , i , 180 . 16. edict ] For words with a shifting accent , see Walker , Vers . p . 291 , or Abbott , $ 490 . 18. Achademe ] Hunter ( i , 265 ) : This is no affected word , nor is it thus ...
... Collier's Reprint in Shakespeare's Library , i , 180 . 16. edict ] For words with a shifting accent , see Walker , Vers . p . 291 , or Abbott , $ 490 . 18. Achademe ] Hunter ( i , 265 ) : This is no affected word , nor is it thus ...
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... Collier says that the whole couplet was proverbial , and quotes from Paremiologia Anglo - Latina , by John Clarke ... Collier's Reprint ) and attributed to Shakespeare . The version is the same as in the Qto . The phrase ' Fat paunches ...
... Collier says that the whole couplet was proverbial , and quotes from Paremiologia Anglo - Latina , by John Clarke ... Collier's Reprint ) and attributed to Shakespeare . The version is the same as in the Qto . The phrase ' Fat paunches ...
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... COLLIER ( ed . ii ) : The MS gives us ' low hear- ing , and in the difficulty of the case we may be disposed to ... Collier's MS probably made his alteration in consequence of finding ( the misprint ) ' hearing ' in the next speech ...
... COLLIER ( ed . ii ) : The MS gives us ' low hear- ing , and in the difficulty of the case we may be disposed to ... Collier's MS probably made his alteration in consequence of finding ( the misprint ) ' hearing ' in the next speech ...
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... Collier ( ed . ii ) : The epithet shallow ' seems to show that vessel of the MS Corrector is right . Dyce adopted vessel without comment ; but Halliwell justly remarks that there is no need of any change , " vassal " being again used in ...
... Collier ( ed . ii ) : The epithet shallow ' seems to show that vessel of the MS Corrector is right . Dyce adopted vessel without comment ; but Halliwell justly remarks that there is no need of any change , " vassal " being again used in ...
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