“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 49
... JOHNSON . Thus , in All's well that ends well : " -when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear . " Again , in The Tragedie of Cræsus , 1604 , by Lord Sterline : " For as the shadow seems more monstrous still , " Than doth the ...
... JOHNSON . Thus , in All's well that ends well : " -when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear . " Again , in The Tragedie of Cræsus , 1604 , by Lord Sterline : " For as the shadow seems more monstrous still , " Than doth the ...
Page 50
... Johnson . Surmise , is speculation , conjecture concerning the future . MALONE . Shakspeare has somewhat like this sentiment in The Merchant of Venice : " Where , every something being blent together , " Turns to a wild of nothing ...
... Johnson . Surmise , is speculation , conjecture concerning the future . MALONE . Shakspeare has somewhat like this sentiment in The Merchant of Venice : " Where , every something being blent together , " Turns to a wild of nothing ...
Page 53
... JOHNSON . His own profession furnished our author with this phrase . To be studied in a part , or to have studied it , is yet the technical term of the theatre . MALONE . To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd , As SC . IV . 58 МАСВЕТΗ ...
... JOHNSON . His own profession furnished our author with this phrase . To be studied in a part , or to have studied it , is yet the technical term of the theatre . MALONE . To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd , As SC . IV . 58 МАСВЕТΗ ...
Page 54
... JOHNSON .. Dr. Johnson seems to have understood the word construction in this place , in the sense of frame or structure ; but the school- term was , I believe , intended by Shakspeare . The meaning is - We cannot construe or discover ...
... JOHNSON .. Dr. Johnson seems to have understood the word construction in this place , in the sense of frame or structure ; but the school- term was , I believe , intended by Shakspeare . The meaning is - We cannot construe or discover ...
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... JOHNSON . So , in Act IV : " And wears upon his baby brow the round " And top of sovereignty . " STEEVENS . Metaphysical , for supernatural . But doth seem to have thee crown'd withal , is not sense . To make it so , it should be sup ...
... JOHNSON . So , in Act IV : " And wears upon his baby brow the round " And top of sovereignty . " STEEVENS . Metaphysical , for supernatural . But doth seem to have thee crown'd withal , is not sense . To make it so , it should be sup ...
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