The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Page 49
... sense by a quibble . In the mean time , I have no objection to read made , i . e . created . The force of the fentiment is the fame . Comus is univerfally allowed to have taken fome of its tints from The Tempest . T. WARTON . The firft ...
... sense by a quibble . In the mean time , I have no objection to read made , i . e . created . The force of the fentiment is the fame . Comus is univerfally allowed to have taken fome of its tints from The Tempest . T. WARTON . The firft ...
Page 70
... sense he would be trebled o'er . So , in Pericles , 1609 : 66 -the mafter calls , " And trebles the confufion . " Again , in The Two Noble Kinfmen , 1634 : thirds his own worth . " STEEVENS . Again , in the Merchant of Venice : -Yet ...
... sense he would be trebled o'er . So , in Pericles , 1609 : 66 -the mafter calls , " And trebles the confufion . " Again , in The Two Noble Kinfmen , 1634 : thirds his own worth . " STEEVENS . Again , in the Merchant of Venice : -Yet ...
Page 72
... sense or metre . On the contrary , the infertion of the words I have excluded , by lengthening the parenthefis , obfcures the meaning of the speaker , and , at the fame time , produces redundancy of measure . Irregularity of metre ought ...
... sense or metre . On the contrary , the infertion of the words I have excluded , by lengthening the parenthefis , obfcures the meaning of the speaker , and , at the fame time , produces redundancy of measure . Irregularity of metre ought ...
Page 120
... sense in which good life is used by the Clown . It may , therefore , in the present inftance , mean , honeft alacrity , or cheerfulness . Life feems to be used in the chorus to the fifth act of K. Henry V. with fome meaning like that ...
... sense in which good life is used by the Clown . It may , therefore , in the present inftance , mean , honeft alacrity , or cheerfulness . Life feems to be used in the chorus to the fifth act of K. Henry V. with fome meaning like that ...
Page 162
... sense to be only this : Ferdinand would not , he fays , play her false for the world : yes , answers fhe , I would allow you to do it for fome- thing less than the world , for twenty kingdoms , and I wish you well enough to allow you ...
... sense to be only this : Ferdinand would not , he fays , play her false for the world : yes , answers fhe , I would allow you to do it for fome- thing less than the world , for twenty kingdoms , and I wish you well enough to allow you ...
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