The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... means , conduct ; in the preceding line , circum- stantial deduction . MALONE . I As in the sWEETEST BUD The eating CANKER dwells , ] So , in our author's 70th Sonnet : " For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love . " MALONE . PRO ...
... means , conduct ; in the preceding line , circum- stantial deduction . MALONE . I As in the sWEETEST BUD The eating CANKER dwells , ] So , in our author's 70th Sonnet : " For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love . " MALONE . PRO ...
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... means this passion at his name ? Luc . Pardon , dear madam ; ' tis a passing shame , That I , unworthy body as I am , Should censure thus ' on lovely gentlemen . 6 -he SIR EGLAMOUR never should be mine . ] Perhaps Sir Eglamour was once ...
... means this passion at his name ? Luc . Pardon , dear madam ; ' tis a passing shame , That I , unworthy body as I am , Should censure thus ' on lovely gentlemen . 6 -he SIR EGLAMOUR never should be mine . ] Perhaps Sir Eglamour was once ...
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... mean ' to fill your song . 5 JUL . The mean is drown'd with your unruly baseR . Luc . Indeed I bid the base for Proteus ... means here , I believe , " to challenge to an encounter . " So , in our author's Venus and Adonis : JUL . This ...
... mean ' to fill your song . 5 JUL . The mean is drown'd with your unruly baseR . Luc . Indeed I bid the base for Proteus ... means here , I believe , " to challenge to an encounter . " So , in our author's Venus and Adonis : JUL . This ...
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... means proves what it is supposed to prove , the following instances will decisively shew that the game was called the base , or prison base , or prison bars . The first is found in Cymbeline : 66 lads more like to run " The country base ...
... means proves what it is supposed to prove , the following instances will decisively shew that the game was called the base , or prison base , or prison bars . The first is found in Cymbeline : 66 lads more like to run " The country base ...
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... means reproach or imputation . So Demetrius says to Helena in A Midsummer - Night's Dream : " You do impeach your modesty too much , 66 To leave the city , and commit yourself , " Into the hands of one that loves you not . " M. MASON ...
... means reproach or imputation . So Demetrius says to Helena in A Midsummer - Night's Dream : " You do impeach your modesty too much , 66 To leave the city , and commit yourself , " Into the hands of one that loves you not . " M. MASON ...
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 283 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?