A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His ContemporariesSmith, 1888 - 981 Seiten |
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... writers . The numerous criticisms on the difficulties of the text of Shakespeare , scattered throughout this work , are characterised by a degree of soberness and good sense , as well as by a profound knowledge of the literature of his ...
... writers . The numerous criticisms on the difficulties of the text of Shakespeare , scattered throughout this work , are characterised by a degree of soberness and good sense , as well as by a profound knowledge of the literature of his ...
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... writers of that age who are more generally known or who are better deserving of general attention . From these illustrations , some words and phrases only partially understood before , will now receive new light ; while others are given ...
... writers of that age who are more generally known or who are better deserving of general attention . From these illustrations , some words and phrases only partially understood before , will now receive new light ; while others are given ...
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... writer . I have carefully abstained from inserting the words and phrases of an earlier period than the reign of Elizabeth , except where the writers of her time at all affected the phraseology of Chaucer ; which affectation , in my ...
... writer . I have carefully abstained from inserting the words and phrases of an earlier period than the reign of Elizabeth , except where the writers of her time at all affected the phraseology of Chaucer ; which affectation , in my ...
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... writers who can properly be called English ; that is , who wrote when the language was no longer Saxon . A Saxon Dictionary of the same form , with all the examples at length , would complete the historical view of our national speech ...
... writers who can properly be called English ; that is , who wrote when the language was no longer Saxon . A Saxon Dictionary of the same form , with all the examples at length , would complete the historical view of our national speech ...
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... writers . ABRIDGEMENT . A dramatic per- formance ; probably from the preva- lence of the historical drama , in which the events of years were so abridged as to be brought within the compass of a play . Say what abridgement have you for ...
... writers . ABRIDGEMENT . A dramatic per- formance ; probably from the preva- lence of the historical drama , in which the events of years were so abridged as to be brought within the compass of a play . Say what abridgement have you for ...
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Seite 269 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Seite 262 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 28 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev.
Seite 349 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Seite 273 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 7 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Seite 465 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Seite 233 - Be content; Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift: His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
Seite 160 - Shirley's Works, vol. iv. p. 298. Nares (in his Gloss.) quotes what follows from Blount's Glossography : " Chrisome (a xplia [to anoint — with the holy oil formerly used in baptism]) signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the minister of baptism upon the head of a child newly anointed with chrism after his baptism. Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a child newly christened, in token of his baptism ; wherewith the women use to shroud the child, if dying within...
Seite 390 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.