The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 3C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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... hand sword , the bastard sword , the dagger and staff , the sword and buckler , the rapier and dagger , & c . The places where they exercised were commonly theatres , halls , or other enclosures sufficient to contain a number of ...
... hand sword , the bastard sword , the dagger and staff , the sword and buckler , the rapier and dagger , & c . The places where they exercised were commonly theatres , halls , or other enclosures sufficient to contain a number of ...
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... hands of that time anchor and author could hardly be distinguished . Johnson . " The anchor is deep , " may mean - his hopes are well founded . So , in The Knight of the Burning Pestle , by Beaumont and Fletcher : 66 Now my latest hope ...
... hands of that time anchor and author could hardly be distinguished . Johnson . " The anchor is deep , " may mean - his hopes are well founded . So , in The Knight of the Burning Pestle , by Beaumont and Fletcher : 66 Now my latest hope ...
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... hand , to Ford , and not to Page . Shakspeare is frequently guilty of these little forgetful- nesses . Steevens . The folio reads - to Ford ; and in the next line - and I to Page , & c . But the reverse of this ( as Mr. Steevens has ...
... hand , to Ford , and not to Page . Shakspeare is frequently guilty of these little forgetful- nesses . Steevens . The folio reads - to Ford ; and in the next line - and I to Page , & c . But the reverse of this ( as Mr. Steevens has ...
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... hands , ] Perhaps this is an allusion to the jockey measure , so many hands high , used by grooms when speak- ing of horses . Tall , in our author's time , signified not only height of stature , but stoutness of body . The ambiguity of ...
... hands , ] Perhaps this is an allusion to the jockey measure , so many hands high , used by grooms when speak- ing of horses . Tall , in our author's time , signified not only height of stature , but stoutness of body . The ambiguity of ...
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... hands " sometimes meant quick - handed , active ; and as Simple is here commending his master for his gymnastic abilities , perhaps the phrase is here used in that sense . See Florio's Italian Dictionary , 1598 , in v . " Manesco ...
... hands " sometimes meant quick - handed , active ; and as Simple is here commending his master for his gymnastic abilities , perhaps the phrase is here used in that sense . See Florio's Italian Dictionary , 1598 , in v . " Manesco ...
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