The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... word , which is always right in The Tempest : " Is not this Stephano , my drunken butler ? " And always wrong in his earlier play , The Merchant of Venice , which had been on the stage at least two or three years before its publication ...
... word , which is always right in The Tempest : " Is not this Stephano , my drunken butler ? " And always wrong in his earlier play , The Merchant of Venice , which had been on the stage at least two or three years before its publication ...
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... word . So , in Decker's Satiromastix : " They'll make his muse as yare as a tumbler . " STEEVENS . Here it is applied as a fea - term , and in other parts of the scene . So he uses the adjective , Act V. fc . v : " Our ship is tight and ...
... word . So , in Decker's Satiromastix : " They'll make his muse as yare as a tumbler . " STEEVENS . Here it is applied as a fea - term , and in other parts of the scene . So he uses the adjective , Act V. fc . v : " Our ship is tight and ...
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... word is common to other ancient writers . They took it from . the French abysme , now written abime . So , in Heywood's Brazen Age , 1613 : / " And chase him from the deep abysms below . " STEEVENS . * Twelve years fince , Miranda ...
... word is common to other ancient writers . They took it from . the French abysme , now written abime . So , in Heywood's Brazen Age , 1613 : / " And chase him from the deep abysms below . " STEEVENS . * Twelve years fince , Miranda ...
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... word . So , in Fletcher's Prophetess , the chorus , fpeaking of Drufilla , says : " But takes their oaths , in lieu ... words , which are unneceffary to the metre ; hear , at the beginning of the next speech , being used as a ...
... word . So , in Fletcher's Prophetess , the chorus , fpeaking of Drufilla , says : " But takes their oaths , in lieu ... words , which are unneceffary to the metre ; hear , at the beginning of the next speech , being used as a ...
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... words , in verb . to deg , and to deck ; and his DICT . of South Country words , in verb . dag . The latter ... word should be printed degg'd , which , says he , fignifies sprinkled , and is in daily use in the North of England ...
... words , in verb . to deg , and to deck ; and his DICT . of South Country words , in verb . dag . The latter ... word should be printed degg'd , which , says he , fignifies sprinkled , and is in daily use in the North of England ...
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