The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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... JOHNSON . Mr. 7 I cannot difmifs this anecdote without obferving that it seems to want every mark of probability . Though Shakspeare quitted Stratford on ac- count of a juvenile irregularity , we have no reafon to fuppofe that he had ...
... JOHNSON . Mr. 7 I cannot difmifs this anecdote without obferving that it seems to want every mark of probability . Though Shakspeare quitted Stratford on ac- count of a juvenile irregularity , we have no reafon to fuppofe that he had ...
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... JOHNSON . merely ] In this place fignifies abfolutely . In which sense it is ufed in Hamlet , A & I. fc . ii . STEEVENS to glut bim . ] Shakespeare probably wrote , t'englut bim , to fwallow him ; for which I know not that glut is ever ...
... JOHNSON . merely ] In this place fignifies abfolutely . In which sense it is ufed in Hamlet , A & I. fc . ii . STEEVENS to glut bim . ] Shakespeare probably wrote , t'englut bim , to fwallow him ; for which I know not that glut is ever ...
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... JOHNSON . 6 Now in the waist , ] The part between the quarter - deck and the fore- caftie . JOHNSON . 7 Burton fays , that the Spirits of fire , in form of fire - drakes and blazing stars , oftentimes fit on fhip - mafts , " & c ...
... JOHNSON . 6 Now in the waist , ] The part between the quarter - deck and the fore- caftie . JOHNSON . 7 Burton fays , that the Spirits of fire , in form of fire - drakes and blazing stars , oftentimes fit on fhip - mafts , " & c ...
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... JOHNSON . The poet feems to have been apprehensive that the audience , as well as Miranda , would fleep over this long but neceffary tale , and therefore ftrives to break it . First , by making Prospero diveft himself of his magic robe ...
... JOHNSON . The poet feems to have been apprehensive that the audience , as well as Miranda , would fleep over this long but neceffary tale , and therefore ftrives to break it . First , by making Prospero diveft himself of his magic robe ...
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... JOHNSON . 7 The owners of a merchant's fhip , or the officers to whom the naviga- tion of it had been trufted . STEEVENS . 8 Why Dr. Warburton fhould change vifitor to ' vifer , for adviser , I cannot difcover . Gonzalo gives not only ...
... JOHNSON . 7 The owners of a merchant's fhip , or the officers to whom the naviga- tion of it had been trufted . STEEVENS . 8 Why Dr. Warburton fhould change vifitor to ' vifer , for adviser , I cannot difcover . Gonzalo gives not only ...
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