Explanations and emendations of some passages in the text of Shakespeare and of Beaumont and Fletcher, by Martinus ScriblerusGeorge Ramsay and Company, 1814 - 56 pages |
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... replies , [ Act 1. Scene 1. ] An you can find one [ i.e. a wife ] that can please my fancy , You shall not find me stubborn . Lovegood . Speak your woman . Valentine . One without eyes , that is , self - commenda- tions ; ( For when ...
... replies , [ Act 1. Scene 1. ] An you can find one [ i.e. a wife ] that can please my fancy , You shall not find me stubborn . Lovegood . Speak your woman . Valentine . One without eyes , that is , self - commenda- tions ; ( For when ...
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... replies in the following sin- gular strain , the drift of which is , that his tenants will not permit such an intrusion . I give the speech as it hath been amended by Mr Seward , and is printed in Mr Weber's edition : ( Act 5 . scene 2 ...
... replies in the following sin- gular strain , the drift of which is , that his tenants will not permit such an intrusion . I give the speech as it hath been amended by Mr Seward , and is printed in Mr Weber's edition : ( Act 5 . scene 2 ...
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... , To train his youth up . to which Manuel replies . Manuel . I must witness that . Guiomar . How there he prosper'd , to the admiration , Of all that knew him , for a general scholar , Being one of note before he was a man , 43.
... , To train his youth up . to which Manuel replies . Manuel . I must witness that . Guiomar . How there he prosper'd , to the admiration , Of all that knew him , for a general scholar , Being one of note before he was a man , 43.
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... replies , as the editors now give her speech , That you meet me here , ne'er blush at that Arnoldo , Your cunning comes too late ; I am a woman , And one woman with another may he trusted . The original reading is , " Your coming comes ...
... replies , as the editors now give her speech , That you meet me here , ne'er blush at that Arnoldo , Your cunning comes too late ; I am a woman , And one woman with another may he trusted . The original reading is , " Your coming comes ...
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... replies in the following fine strain of eloquence : [ Act 4 , Scene 5.1 Your will's a poor one ; And though it be a king's will , a despis'd one ; Weaker than infant's legs , your will's in swaddling clouts . A thousand ways my will has ...
... replies in the following fine strain of eloquence : [ Act 4 , Scene 5.1 Your will's a poor one ; And though it be a king's will , a despis'd one ; Weaker than infant's legs , your will's in swaddling clouts . A thousand ways my will has ...
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