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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... first exam- ple of failor's language exhibited on the ftage , there are , as I have been told by a skilful navigator , fome inaccuracies and contra- dictory orders . JOHNSON . The foregoing obfervation is founded on a mistake . These ...
... first exam- ple of failor's language exhibited on the ftage , there are , as I have been told by a skilful navigator , fome inaccuracies and contra- dictory orders . JOHNSON . The foregoing obfervation is founded on a mistake . These ...
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... first inftance , is used as a diffyllable , in the second as a monofyllable . But this is not a licence peculiar to the profody of Shakspeare . In the fecond book of Sidney's Arcadia are the following lines , exhibiting the fame word ...
... first inftance , is used as a diffyllable , in the second as a monofyllable . But this is not a licence peculiar to the profody of Shakspeare . In the fecond book of Sidney's Arcadia are the following lines , exhibiting the fame word ...
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... first , And Profpero the prime duke ; being fo reputed In dignity , and , for the liberal arts , Without a parallel ; thofe being all my study , The government I caft upon my brother , And to my state grew ftranger , being transported ...
... first , And Profpero the prime duke ; being fo reputed In dignity , and , for the liberal arts , Without a parallel ; thofe being all my study , The government I caft upon my brother , And to my state grew ftranger , being transported ...
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... first book of Homer , 1581 , where Achilles fwears by his fceptre : " Who having loft the fapp of wood , eft greeneneffe cannot drawe . " STEEVENS . 9 I pray thee , mark me . ] In the old copy , thefe words are the beginning of ...
... first book of Homer , 1581 , where Achilles fwears by his fceptre : " Who having loft the fapp of wood , eft greeneneffe cannot drawe . " STEEVENS . 9 I pray thee , mark me . ] In the old copy , thefe words are the beginning of ...
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... first line , and the ridiculous precaution that Ariel should not be invisible to himfelf , plainly prove that the words - and thine - were the interpolations of ignorance . STEEVENS . Go make thy felf like a nymph o ' the fea be fubject ...
... first line , and the ridiculous precaution that Ariel should not be invisible to himfelf , plainly prove that the words - and thine - were the interpolations of ignorance . STEEVENS . Go make thy felf like a nymph o ' the fea be fubject ...
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