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... STEEVENS . The reading of the text , on which Mr. Steevens has founded a very probable conjecture , is that of the first quarto . And his interpretation is fully fupported by a paffage in Measure for Mea- fure : 66 -our compell'd fins ...
... STEEVENS . The reading of the text , on which Mr. Steevens has founded a very probable conjecture , is that of the first quarto . And his interpretation is fully fupported by a paffage in Measure for Mea- fure : 66 -our compell'd fins ...
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... STEEVENS . man of wax . - ] Well made , as if he had been modelled in wax , as Mr. Steevens by a happy quotation has explained it . " When you , Lydia , praife the waxen arms of Telephus , " ( fays , Horace . ) Waxen , well fhaped ...
... STEEVENS . man of wax . - ] Well made , as if he had been modelled in wax , as Mr. Steevens by a happy quotation has explained it . " When you , Lydia , praife the waxen arms of Telephus , " ( fays , Horace . ) Waxen , well fhaped ...
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... STEEVENS . Examine ev'ry feveral lineament , ] The quarto , 1599 , reads , every married lineament . - Shakspeare meant by this laft phrafe , Examine how nicely one feature depends upon another , or accords with another , in order to ...
... STEEVENS . Examine ev'ry feveral lineament , ] The quarto , 1599 , reads , every married lineament . - Shakspeare meant by this laft phrafe , Examine how nicely one feature depends upon another , or accords with another , in order to ...
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... STEEVENS . 6c 3 endart mine eye , ] The quarto , 1597 , reads : engage mine eye . " STEEVENS . To this fpeech there have been likewife additions fince the elder quarto , but they are not of fufficient confequence to be quoted . STEEVENS ...
... STEEVENS . 6c 3 endart mine eye , ] The quarto , 1597 , reads : engage mine eye . " STEEVENS . To this fpeech there have been likewife additions fince the elder quarto , but they are not of fufficient confequence to be quoted . STEEVENS ...
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... STEEVENS . 3 Let avantons light of heart , & c . ] Middleton has borrowed this thought in his play of Blurt Mafter - Conftable , 1602 : 66 - bid him , whofe heart no forrow feels , Tickle the rufhes with his wanton heels , " I have too ...
... STEEVENS . 3 Let avantons light of heart , & c . ] Middleton has borrowed this thought in his play of Blurt Mafter - Conftable , 1602 : 66 - bid him , whofe heart no forrow feels , Tickle the rufhes with his wanton heels , " I have too ...
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