On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, 2. köideLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1866 |
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... figures , presents an expression justly pronounced obscure by Dr. Johnson . The King says to him : " Not that I think you did not love your But that I know , love is begun by time ; father ; And that I see , in passages of proof ...
... figures , presents an expression justly pronounced obscure by Dr. Johnson . The King says to him : " Not that I think you did not love your But that I know , love is begun by time ; father ; And that I see , in passages of proof ...
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Samuel Bailey. pressing moral waste or disintegration ( if I may be pardoned the figure ) is a familiar one in the writings of our author . Thus , in an extract given a few pages back , he speaks of custom eating all sense of evil habits ...
Samuel Bailey. pressing moral waste or disintegration ( if I may be pardoned the figure ) is a familiar one in the writings of our author . Thus , in an extract given a few pages back , he speaks of custom eating all sense of evil habits ...
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... figure . For foresee read forescent . It is true that forescent does not occur in any other of his plays ; but he , like many other writers , was not particularly scrupulous in forming new compound words after the fashion already ...
... figure . For foresee read forescent . It is true that forescent does not occur in any other of his plays ; but he , like many other writers , was not particularly scrupulous in forming new compound words after the fashion already ...
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... figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at , O ! O ! " Act iv . sc . 2 . It would be tedious to reproduce here the remarks on the second line ; they are chiefly in defence and explanation of the singular phrase ...
... figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at , O ! O ! " Act iv . sc . 2 . It would be tedious to reproduce here the remarks on the second line ; they are chiefly in defence and explanation of the singular phrase ...
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... figure . " More . over , what special fitness here would slow , or moving , or even unmoving , have ? Certainly none of that fitness which characterises Shakespeare's epithets . The emendation which has occurred to me as most likely to ...
... figure . " More . over , what special fitness here would slow , or moving , or even unmoving , have ? Certainly none of that fitness which characterises Shakespeare's epithets . The emendation which has occurred to me as most likely to ...
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