The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 3C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... expressions equally licentious . Malone . 7 The dozen white louses do become an old coat well ; & c . ] So , in The Penniless Parliament of thread - bare Poets , 1608 : " But amongst all other decrees and statutes by us here set downe ...
... expressions equally licentious . Malone . 7 The dozen white louses do become an old coat well ; & c . ] So , in The Penniless Parliament of thread - bare Poets , 1608 : " But amongst all other decrees and statutes by us here set downe ...
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... expression is highly humorous , as making her speaking small like a woman one of her marks of distinction ; and the ambiguity of small , which signifies little as well as low , makes the expression still more pleasant . Warburton . Eva ...
... expression is highly humorous , as making her speaking small like a woman one of her marks of distinction ; and the ambiguity of small , which signifies little as well as low , makes the expression still more pleasant . Warburton . Eva ...
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... expression under the article Pleonasmus . Henderson . 1- mill - sixpences , ] It appears from a passage in Sir William Davenant's Newes from Plimouth , that these mill - six- pences were used by way of counters to cast up money : • 66 A ...
... expression under the article Pleonasmus . Henderson . 1- mill - sixpences , ] It appears from a passage in Sir William Davenant's Newes from Plimouth , that these mill - six- pences were used by way of counters to cast up money : • 66 A ...
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... expression means , that the common bounds of good behaviour are overpassed . Johnson . To pass the cariere was a military phrase , or rather perhaps a term of the menage . I find it in one of sir John Smythe's Dis- courses , 1589 ...
... expression means , that the common bounds of good behaviour are overpassed . Johnson . To pass the cariere was a military phrase , or rather perhaps a term of the menage . I find it in one of sir John Smythe's Dis- courses , 1589 ...
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... expression , that often occurs in the old plays . So , in Decker's Satiromastix : " And make damnation parcel of your oath . ” This passage , however , might have been designed as a ridicule on another , in John Lyly's Midas , 1592 ...
... expression , that often occurs in the old plays . So , in Decker's Satiromastix : " And make damnation parcel of your oath . ” This passage , however , might have been designed as a ridicule on another , in John Lyly's Midas , 1592 ...
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