King Lear: A TragedyG. Graebner, 1861 - 113 pages |
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... signifies exactly right ; simi- | prohibited their use ; " and adds , lar to the phrase , just at the nick of time . 2. Catastrophe , in its dramatic sense , i . e . the last part of a drama . 3. Dr. Burney explains these four syllables ...
... signifies exactly right ; simi- | prohibited their use ; " and adds , lar to the phrase , just at the nick of time . 2. Catastrophe , in its dramatic sense , i . e . the last part of a drama . 3. Dr. Burney explains these four syllables ...
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... signify that he is a friend to the Gov- Which in - ernment and a Protestant . 3. To act in the same manner as I do . 4. Diffuse here signifies disguise . 5. To raze , to efface . duced me to disguise myself . King Lear . 2 Lear . What ...
... signify that he is a friend to the Gov- Which in - ernment and a Protestant . 3. To act in the same manner as I do . 4. Diffuse here signifies disguise . 5. To raze , to efface . duced me to disguise myself . King Lear . 2 Lear . What ...
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... OSWALD out . 1. i . e . punctilious jealousy . 2. Pretence , in Shakespeare , generally signifies design . Very , real , true . 3. Go to , a scornful exhortation . * Lear . Now , my friendly knave , I thank ACT I. SC . IV . 19.
... OSWALD out . 1. i . e . punctilious jealousy . 2. Pretence , in Shakespeare , generally signifies design . Very , real , true . 3. Go to , a scornful exhortation . * Lear . Now , my friendly knave , I thank ACT I. SC . IV . 19.
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... signified estate , or property . In this sense the benefice of a clergyman is now so called . 6. Brach , a bitch of the hunting kind . 7. To trow , to believe , to imagine , to conceive . Obsolete . 8. To set , to stake at play . Leave ...
... signified estate , or property . In this sense the benefice of a clergyman is now so called . 6. Brach , a bitch of the hunting kind . 7. To trow , to believe , to imagine , to conceive . Obsolete . 8. To set , to stake at play . Leave ...
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... signifying meat cut across to be broiled upon the coals . 4. The meaning of this epithet neat may be gathered from a passage in " Winter's Tale " , Act I. , Sc . 2 : 66 Come , captain , We must be neat ; not neat , but cleanly , captain ...
... signifying meat cut across to be broiled upon the coals . 4. The meaning of this epithet neat may be gathered from a passage in " Winter's Tale " , Act I. , Sc . 2 : 66 Come , captain , We must be neat ; not neat , but cleanly , captain ...
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Alack Albany arms art thou bear beggars better bids blood brother Burgundy called carbonado Cordelia Corn Cornwall daughter dear death Dost thou doth Dover duke duke of Albany duke of Cornwall Edmund Enter EDGAR Enter GLOSTER Enter KENT Enter LEAR Exeunt LEAR Exit eyes father Flibbertigibbet follow Fool fortune foul fiend France Gent Gentleman give Glos GLOSTER'S Castle gods Goneril grace hand hath hear heart heaven hither honour horse King Lear knave lady Lear's look lord Madam master means nature never night noble nuncle Oswald pity poison'd poor Poor Tom Pr'ythee pray Re-enter Regan SCENE seek sense Servants signifies sirrah sister slave sorrow speak speech stand Starblasting storm sweet lord sword tears tell thee thine thing thou art thou dost thou hast traitor trumpet villain word wretch