Merry wives of Windsor ; Troilus and CressidaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theater |
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... WARBurton . Thus , Lear , speaking of Cordelia : 66 Her voice was ever soft , " Gentle and low ; -an excellent thing in woman . " STEEVENS . EVA . It is that fery person for all the SC . I. 13 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR .
... WARBurton . Thus , Lear , speaking of Cordelia : 66 Her voice was ever soft , " Gentle and low ; -an excellent thing in woman . " STEEVENS . EVA . It is that fery person for all the SC . I. 13 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR .
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... Warburton has found more pleasantry here than I believe was intended . Small was , I think , not used , as he supposes , in an ambiguous sense , for " little , as well as low , " but simply for weak , slender , feminine ; and the only ...
... Warburton has found more pleasantry here than I believe was intended . Small was , I think , not used , as he supposes , in an ambiguous sense , for " little , as well as low , " but simply for weak , slender , feminine ; and the only ...
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... WARBURTON . 8 And being FAP , ] I know not the exact meaning of this cant word , neither have I met with it in any of our old dramatic pieces , which have often proved the best comments on Shak- speare's vulgarisms . Dr. Farmer , indeed ...
... WARBURTON . 8 And being FAP , ] I know not the exact meaning of this cant word , neither have I met with it in any of our old dramatic pieces , which have often proved the best comments on Shak- speare's vulgarisms . Dr. Farmer , indeed ...
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... WARBURTON . 8 - a MASTER OF FENCE , ] Master of defence , on this occa- sion , does not simply mean a professor of the art of fencing , but a person who had taken his master's degree in it . I learn from one of the Sloanian MSS . ( now ...
... WARBURTON . 8 - a MASTER OF FENCE , ] Master of defence , on this occa- sion , does not simply mean a professor of the art of fencing , but a person who had taken his master's degree in it . I learn from one of the Sloanian MSS . ( now ...
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... WARBUrton . So , in The Maid of the Mill by Fletcher and Rowley : 66 66 Come , follow me , you country lasses , And you shall see such sport as passes . " BOSWELL . 4 By cock and pye , ] This was a very popular adjuration , and occurs ...
... WARBUrton . So , in The Maid of the Mill by Fletcher and Rowley : 66 66 Come , follow me , you country lasses , And you shall see such sport as passes . " BOSWELL . 4 By cock and pye , ] This was a very popular adjuration , and occurs ...
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Achilles Æneas AGAM Agamemnon Ajax ancient Ben Jonson CAIUS Calchas called comedy CRES Cressida devil Diomed doth edit editor Enter eringoes Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies Falstaff folio fool give Grecian Greeks Hanmer hath heart heaven HECT Hector Helen honour horse HOST humour husband JOHNSON Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear knight lady lord Lydgate MALONE master Brook master doctor means Menelaus mistress Ford Neoptolemus Nestor old copy old quarto Pandarus Paris passage PATR Patroclus phrase PIST play pray Priam prince quarto Queen QUICK quoth reading scene sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's SHAL Shallow signifies Sir Hugh sir John SLEN Slender speak speech STEEVENS suppose sweet sword tell thee THEOBALD THER Thersites thing thou thought Troilus Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy true TYRWHITT ULYSS WARBURTON wife Windsor woman word