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... meaning is too weak and nerveless to endure adversity , Cornwall shows himself a cruel savage , and Kent a loyal devoted subject whose good advice Lear would have done well to heed . ( f ) The Fool . - The last character XX INTRODUCTION .
... meaning is too weak and nerveless to endure adversity , Cornwall shows himself a cruel savage , and Kent a loyal devoted subject whose good advice Lear would have done well to heed . ( f ) The Fool . - The last character XX INTRODUCTION .
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... meaning originally , but gradually they acquired the transformed signification which they bear in our own times . Language in the time of Greene , Marlowe and Shakespeare was in a transition stage between the ancient and uncouth ...
... meaning originally , but gradually they acquired the transformed signification which they bear in our own times . Language in the time of Greene , Marlowe and Shakespeare was in a transition stage between the ancient and uncouth ...
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... meaning from that which they now possess : - Pelting , meaning paltry ( ii . 3 , 18 ) . Cockney , meaning an affected woman ( ii . 4 , 116 ) . Embossed , meaning swollen , protuberant ( ii . 4 , 219 ) . Packings , meaning plottings ...
... meaning from that which they now possess : - Pelting , meaning paltry ( ii . 3 , 18 ) . Cockney , meaning an affected woman ( ii . 4 , 116 ) . Embossed , meaning swollen , protuberant ( ii . 4 , 219 ) . Packings , meaning plottings ...
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... meaning to walk about . Again , in King Lear , we read the following : - Thou losest here , a better where to find ; " here " and " where being used as nouns ; there is another good illustration in King Lear , iii . 6 , 108 : - He ...
... meaning to walk about . Again , in King Lear , we read the following : - Thou losest here , a better where to find ; " here " and " where being used as nouns ; there is another good illustration in King Lear , iii . 6 , 108 : - He ...
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... meaning towards you : I have told you what I have seen and heard ; but faintly , nothing like the image and horror of it : pray you , away . EDG . Shall I hear from you anon ? EDM . I do serve you in this business . A credulous father ...
... meaning towards you : I have told you what I have seen and heard ; but faintly , nothing like the image and horror of it : pray you , away . EDG . Shall I hear from you anon ? EDM . I do serve you in this business . A credulous father ...
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