A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Words of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries, Volumen1J.R. Smith, 1859 |
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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 . A dramatic per- ABRIDGEMENT . 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 . A dramatic per- ABRIDGEMENT . 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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alluded allusion ballad Bartas Ben Jonson called Cartwright's Chapm Chaucer cittern colour common corruption Cotgrave Cymb derived devil Dictionarie doth Drayt Drayton drink Du Bartas Du Cange Eastward Hoe Engl Euphues eyes fair Fairf following passage fool Francion French Gism give gleek Haml hand hath head Hence Heywood's Holinsh Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus Honest Whore horse Howell's Familiar Letters Hudibras humour Ibid Johnson Jons kind king lady Latin Lear lord Love's Cure Love's L. L. low Latin means meant merry Minshew Mirr night Nomenclator Optick origin Othello Passenger of Benvenuto phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tale Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals word
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Página 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
Página 316 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página 227 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Página 443 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 211 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?
Página 258 - Dun is extricated of course ; and the merriment arises from the awkward and affected efforts of the rustics to lift the log, and from sundry arch contrivances to let the ends of it fall on one another's toes.
Página 451 - Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
Página 230 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...
Página 14 - To cry aim," in archery, to encourage the archers by crying out aim, when they were about to shoot. Hence it came to be used for to applaud, to encourage, in a general sense See King John, ii.
Página 53 - Then he sets off to catch them. Any one, who is taken, cannot run out again with his former associates, being accounted a prisoner, but is obliged to assist his captor in pursuing the rest. When all are taken, the game is finished ; and he, who was first taken, is bound to act as catcher in the next game.