Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... meaning in Oberon's words why does he suddenly drop allegory and come back to reality when he says to Puck , ' Fetch me that flower ' ? No one pretends that this has an allegorical significance , and if so , how can it be separated in ...
... meaning in Oberon's words why does he suddenly drop allegory and come back to reality when he says to Puck , ' Fetch me that flower ' ? No one pretends that this has an allegorical significance , and if so , how can it be separated in ...
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... innocence ! Love takes the meaning in love's conference . I mean , that my heart unto yours is knit So that but one heart we can make of it ; 40 Two bosoms interchained with an oath ; So then two 20 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... innocence ! Love takes the meaning in love's conference . I mean , that my heart unto yours is knit So that but one heart we can make of it ; 40 Two bosoms interchained with an oath ; So then two 20 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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... meanings in later usage . Companion ' is not now used contempt- uously as it once was , and as fellow ' frequently ... meaning : C Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums , Clamours of hell , be measures to our pomp ? ' 20. duke ...
... meanings in later usage . Companion ' is not now used contempt- uously as it once was , and as fellow ' frequently ... meaning : C Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums , Clamours of hell , be measures to our pomp ? ' 20. duke ...
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... meaning of the word ' to pour . ' In this sense ' teem ' is still used in the North and East of England . 134 & c . Bishop Newton in his edition of Milton called attention to the resemblance between Lysander's complaint and that of Adam ...
... meaning of the word ' to pour . ' In this sense ' teem ' is still used in the North and East of England . 134 & c . Bishop Newton in his edition of Milton called attention to the resemblance between Lysander's complaint and that of Adam ...
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... meaning of insult and not of wrong only . Compare iii . 2. 148 , and the adjective injurious ' in the sense of insulting , insolent , ' in iii . 2. 195. In the Authorised Version of 1 Timothy i . 13 , ' injurious ' is the rendering of ...
... meaning of insult and not of wrong only . Compare iii . 2. 148 , and the adjective injurious ' in the sense of insulting , insolent , ' in iii . 2. 195. In the Authorised Version of 1 Timothy i . 13 , ' injurious ' is the rendering of ...
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