The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 18J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... word Polack again , Act II . sc . iv . POPE . Polack was , in that age , the term for an inhabitant of Poland : Polaque , French . As in F. Davison's translation of Passeratius's epitaph on Henry III . of France , published by Camden ...
... word Polack again , Act II . sc . iv . POPE . Polack was , in that age , the term for an inhabitant of Poland : Polaque , French . As in F. Davison's translation of Passeratius's epitaph on Henry III . of France , published by Camden ...
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... word of like sound that was familiar to his ear . Unluckily , however , it happened that the singular of the latter has the same sound as the plural of the former . Hence it has been supposed that Shakspeare meant to write Polacks . We ...
... word of like sound that was familiar to his ear . Unluckily , however , it happened that the singular of the latter has the same sound as the plural of the former . Hence it has been supposed that Shakspeare meant to write Polacks . We ...
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... word romage has been properly explained . The fol- lowing passage in Hackluyt's Voyages , 1599 , Vol . II . Ppp 3 , seems indicative of a different meaning : 66 the ships growne foule , unroomaged , and scarcely able to beare any saile ...
... word romage has been properly explained . The fol- lowing passage in Hackluyt's Voyages , 1599 , Vol . II . Ppp 3 , seems indicative of a different meaning : 66 the ships growne foule , unroomaged , and scarcely able to beare any saile ...
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... word of war . " MALONE . A mote it is , ] The first quarto reads - a moth . STEEVENS . A moth was only the old spelling of mote , as I suspected in revising a passage in King John , Vol . X. p . 466 , n . 1 , where we certainly should ...
... word of war . " MALONE . A mote it is , ] The first quarto reads - a moth . STEEVENS . A moth was only the old spelling of mote , as I suspected in revising a passage in King John , Vol . X. p . 466 , n . 1 , where we certainly should ...
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... words As stars are a corruption , and have no doubt that either a line preceding or following the first of those quoted at the head of this note , has been lost ; or that the beginning of one line has been joined to the end of another ...
... words As stars are a corruption , and have no doubt that either a line preceding or following the first of those quoted at the head of this note , has been lost ; or that the beginning of one line has been joined to the end of another ...
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