The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... prefent explanation may be countenanced by the following paffage in Warner's Albion's England , 1602 , B. X. ch . 57 : 1 " Who fuffreth none by might , by wealth or blood to overtopp , " Himself gives all preferment , and whom listeth ...
... prefent explanation may be countenanced by the following paffage in Warner's Albion's England , 1602 , B. X. ch . 57 : 1 " Who fuffreth none by might , by wealth or blood to overtopp , " Himself gives all preferment , and whom listeth ...
Page 54
... pre- fent , with all allowance for poetical licence , cannot be reconciled to grammar . I suspect that our author wrote " were but light to me , " in the sense of would be . In the preceding line the old copy reads - nor this man's ...
... pre- fent , with all allowance for poetical licence , cannot be reconciled to grammar . I suspect that our author wrote " were but light to me , " in the sense of would be . In the preceding line the old copy reads - nor this man's ...
Page 122
... pre- fent , rapturous pleasure , but alienation of mind . So , in Hamlet , A & III . sc . iv : " Nor sense to ecstacy was e'er so thrall'd- . " Mr. Locke has not inelegantly styled it dreaming with our eyes open . STEEVENS . - a thread ...
... pre- fent , rapturous pleasure , but alienation of mind . So , in Hamlet , A & III . sc . iv : " Nor sense to ecstacy was e'er so thrall'd- . " Mr. Locke has not inelegantly styled it dreaming with our eyes open . STEEVENS . - a thread ...
Page 474
... pre- fent " Wall , that vile wall which did these lovers fun- der : " And through wall's chink , poor fouls , they are content " To whisper ; at the which let no man wonder . " This man , with lantern , dog , and bush of thorn ...
... pre- fent " Wall , that vile wall which did these lovers fun- der : " And through wall's chink , poor fouls , they are content " To whisper ; at the which let no man wonder . " This man , with lantern , dog , and bush of thorn ...
Page 499
... prefent , why it would have been " inconvenient for the author to speak openly " in " dispraife " of the Scotifh Queen . If he meant to please " the imperial votress , " no in- cense could have been half fo grateful as the blackest ...
... prefent , why it would have been " inconvenient for the author to speak openly " in " dispraife " of the Scotifh Queen . If he meant to please " the imperial votress , " no in- cense could have been half fo grateful as the blackest ...
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