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... phrase Halliwell surmises may have suggested to Shakespeare the title to the play ; and Wright thinks ' it can scarcely be doubted ' that it is so. Even if we have to yield assent, as I suppose we must, surely a little fretting and ...
... phrase Halliwell surmises may have suggested to Shakespeare the title to the play ; and Wright thinks ' it can scarcely be doubted ' that it is so. Even if we have to yield assent, as I suppose we must, surely a little fretting and ...
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... phrase to mean : ' It is better to do mischief than to do nothing.' Whiter affirms that the meaning is manifestly : 'Retire, — begone, or as we now say in a kind of quaint, colloquial language, make yourself scarce,— vanish,— vote ...
... phrase to mean : ' It is better to do mischief than to do nothing.' Whiter affirms that the meaning is manifestly : 'Retire, — begone, or as we now say in a kind of quaint, colloquial language, make yourself scarce,— vanish,— vote ...
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... phrase His reverence is still thus ironically applied, though with somewhat of a different meaning, and we frequently use the expression your worship, both with a grave and ludicrous signification nearly in the same manner. This sense ...
... phrase His reverence is still thus ironically applied, though with somewhat of a different meaning, and we frequently use the expression your worship, both with a grave and ludicrous signification nearly in the same manner. This sense ...
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... phrase therefore signifies, * My faint-hearted, deceitful first-born brother, you are too young (you give me a title betokening rather fewer years than I have attained to) in this epithet " boy !" ' [The action here is so distinctly set ...
... phrase therefore signifies, * My faint-hearted, deceitful first-born brother, you are too young (you give me a title betokening rather fewer years than I have attained to) in this epithet " boy !" ' [The action here is so distinctly set ...
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... phrase occurs in IV, i, 206; and Lettsom questions if it be not here a blunder for I tell thee. Dyce : It is not a blunder. 138. it is] The use of this impersonal phrase may be as various as the mood of man. Here, as Wright points out ...
... phrase occurs in IV, i, 206; and Lettsom questions if it be not here a blunder for I tell thee. Dyce : It is not a blunder. 138. it is] The use of this impersonal phrase may be as various as the mood of man. Here, as Wright points out ...
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