Merry wives of Windsor ; Troilus and CressidaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theater |
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... ancient printed editions , but only in the MSS ; STEEVENS . I imagine this phrase must have reached our author in some other way ; for I suspect he did not devote much time to the perusal of old MSS . MALONE . Let me see thee FROTH ...
... ancient printed editions , but only in the MSS ; STEEVENS . I imagine this phrase must have reached our author in some other way ; for I suspect he did not devote much time to the perusal of old MSS . MALONE . Let me see thee FROTH ...
Page 47
... ancient grudge to the red - haired Danes . " TOLLET . See my quotation in King Henry VIII . Act V. Sc . II . 41 STEEVENS . as TALL a man of his hands , ] Perhaps this is an allusion to the jockey measure , so many hands high , used by ...
... ancient grudge to the red - haired Danes . " TOLLET . See my quotation in King Henry VIII . Act V. Sc . II . 41 STEEVENS . as TALL a man of his hands , ] Perhaps this is an allusion to the jockey measure , so many hands high , used by ...
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... ancient , being used by Gower : " A worthie knight was of his honde , " There was none suche in all the londe . " De Confessione Amantis , lib . v . fol . 118. b . STEEVENS . The tall man of the old dramatick writers , was a man of a ...
... ancient , being used by Gower : " A worthie knight was of his honde , " There was none suche in all the londe . " De Confessione Amantis , lib . v . fol . 118. b . STEEVENS . The tall man of the old dramatick writers , was a man of a ...
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... called Baronets ; which few of the ancient gentry would condescend to accept . See Sir Henry Spelman's epigram on them , Gloss . p . 76 , which ends thus : MRS . FORD . We burn day - light ' 58 ACT II . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR .
... called Baronets ; which few of the ancient gentry would condescend to accept . See Sir Henry Spelman's epigram on them , Gloss . p . 76 , which ends thus : MRS . FORD . We burn day - light ' 58 ACT II . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR .
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... ancient fable were introduced , as in the present instance , without the least regard to propriety ; for Mrs. Page was not intended , in any degree , to be a learned or an affected lady . 2 STEEVENS . some STRAIN in me , ] Thus the old ...
... ancient fable were introduced , as in the present instance , without the least regard to propriety ; for Mrs. Page was not intended , in any degree , to be a learned or an affected lady . 2 STEEVENS . some STRAIN in me , ] Thus the old ...
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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