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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... ufed to play ; and though I have inquired , I could never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from ...
... ufed to play ; and though I have inquired , I could never meet with any further account of him this way , than that the top of his performance was the Ghoft in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from ...
Page xxxiii
... ufed much to delight in Shakspeare's pleasant company . Their fon young Will Davenant ( after- wards Sir William ) was then a little fchool - boy in the town , of about feven or eight years old , and fo fond alfo of Shakspeare , that ...
... ufed much to delight in Shakspeare's pleasant company . Their fon young Will Davenant ( after- wards Sir William ) was then a little fchool - boy in the town , of about feven or eight years old , and fo fond alfo of Shakspeare , that ...
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... 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 ufed by him . In this fignification englut , from engloutir , French , occurs ...
... 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 ufed by him . In this fignification englut , from engloutir , French , occurs ...
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... ufed by fportfmen in the North when they correct a dog for misbehaviour in purfuing the game . DoucE . A traf is a term ftill in ufe among hunters , to denote a piece of leather , couples , or any other weight faftened round the neck of ...
... ufed by fportfmen in the North when they correct a dog for misbehaviour in purfuing the game . DoucE . A traf is a term ftill in ufe among hunters , to denote a piece of leather , couples , or any other weight faftened round the neck of ...
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... ufed in ruftic language of drops falling upon water . Dr. Warburton reads mock'd ; the Oxford edition brack'd . JOHNSON . To deck , I am told , fignifies in the North , to fprinkle . A correfpon- dent , who figns himself Eboracenfis ...
... ufed in ruftic language of drops falling upon water . Dr. Warburton reads mock'd ; the Oxford edition brack'd . JOHNSON . To deck , I am told , fignifies in the North , to fprinkle . A correfpon- dent , who figns himself Eboracenfis ...
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