The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4C. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... present reading , are at liberty to reject : Through mightief space in fortune nature brings Likes to join likes , and kifs like native things . That is , nature brings like qualities and difpofitions to meet through any diftance that ...
... present reading , are at liberty to reject : Through mightief space in fortune nature brings Likes to join likes , and kifs like native things . That is , nature brings like qualities and difpofitions to meet through any diftance that ...
Page 111
... present hour . " STEEVENS . Perhaps he meant to fayif I were to die this present hour . But fear may be fuppofed to occafion the mistake , as poor frighted Scrub cries : " Spare all I have , and take my life . " TOLLET . -off their ...
... present hour . " STEEVENS . Perhaps he meant to fayif I were to die this present hour . But fear may be fuppofed to occafion the mistake , as poor frighted Scrub cries : " Spare all I have , and take my life . " TOLLET . -off their ...
Page 137
... present reading may stand . JOHNSON . 3 Which better than the firft , O dear heaven , blefs ! Or , e'er they meet , in me , O nature , ceafe ! ] I have ventur'd , against the authorities of the printed copies , to prefix the Countefs's ...
... present reading may stand . JOHNSON . 3 Which better than the firft , O dear heaven , blefs ! Or , e'er they meet , in me , O nature , ceafe ! ] I have ventur'd , against the authorities of the printed copies , to prefix the Countefs's ...
Page 145
... present . Shakespeare ufes the word modern frequently , and always in this fenfe . << -fcorns a modern invocation . " K. John . " Full of wife faws and modern inftances . " As you like it . " Trifles , fuch as we prefent modern friends ...
... present . Shakespeare ufes the word modern frequently , and always in this fenfe . << -fcorns a modern invocation . " K. John . " Full of wife faws and modern inftances . " As you like it . " Trifles , fuch as we prefent modern friends ...
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... present . WARBURTON . This stroke of pretended fatire , but ill accords with the cha- racter of the foolish knight . Ague - cheek , though willing enough to arrogate to himself fuch experience as is commonly the acquin- tion of age , is ...
... present . WARBURTON . This stroke of pretended fatire , but ill accords with the cha- racter of the foolish knight . Ague - cheek , though willing enough to arrogate to himself fuch experience as is commonly the acquin- tion of age , is ...
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