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 Contemporaries, Volume 1J.R. Smith, 1867 - 981 páginas |
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... Steevens's note on Macbeth , act iii , sc . 5 . 2. Prefixed to numeral adjectives . And now the temples of Janus being shut , warlike. A. A. This letter prefixed to a participle , to denote an action still continued , is certainly not at ...
... Steevens's note on Macbeth , act iii , sc . 5 . 2. Prefixed to numeral adjectives . And now the temples of Janus being shut , warlike. A. A. This letter prefixed to a participle , to denote an action still continued , is certainly not at ...
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... Steevens on the first passage . ABRON . For auburn . A lustie courtier , whose curled head With abron locks was fairly furnished . Hall . Sat. , B. iii , S. 5 . A form + ABSCESSION . An abscess . rived from the A.-S. abicgan , and ...
... Steevens on the first passage . ABRON . For auburn . A lustie courtier , whose curled head With abron locks was fairly furnished . Hall . Sat. , B. iii , S. 5 . A form + ABSCESSION . An abscess . rived from the A.-S. abicgan , and ...
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... English meaning . See also the quotations of Mr. Steevens on Love's L. Lost . Even Camden condescends to play upon this word . Speaking of the French word pet , he says , Inquire , if you understand it not , of Cloacina's AGN AJA 13.
... English meaning . See also the quotations of Mr. Steevens on Love's L. Lost . Even Camden condescends to play upon this word . Speaking of the French word pet , he says , Inquire , if you understand it not , of Cloacina's AGN AJA 13.
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... Steevens as the probable reading . In the chair of an hermit there is nothing charac- teristic , but in his cheer or fare there is . TANCHOR . A Dutch liquid measure . See the notes of the commentators on Merry Wives of Windsor , i , 3 ...
... Steevens as the probable reading . In the chair of an hermit there is nothing charac- teristic , but in his cheer or fare there is . TANCHOR . A Dutch liquid measure . See the notes of the commentators on Merry Wives of Windsor , i , 3 ...
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... Steevens's Shakespeare ; where one of his exploits is said to have been going up to the top of St. Paul's church . This feat is alluded to in some verses by Gayton , from Bancks his horse to Rosinante : Let us compare our feats ; thou ...
... Steevens's Shakespeare ; where one of his exploits is said to have been going up to the top of St. Paul's church . This feat is alluded to in some verses by Gayton , from Bancks his horse to Rosinante : Let us compare our feats ; thou ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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 perhaps phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals word
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Página 260 - 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.
Página 283 - Our nation," says Sir Henry Blount, in the preface to a collection of some of Lyly's dramatic pieces which he published in 1632, " are in his debt for a new English which he taught them. Euphues and his England...
Página 235 - Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thyself thou...
Página 271 - 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!
Página 82 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 225 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
Página 231 - 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...
Página iv - The Glossary of Archdeacon Nares is by far the best and most useful work we possess for explaining and illustrating the obsolete language and the customs and manners of the 16th and 17th Centuries, and it is quite indispensable for the readers of the literature of the Elizabethan period.
Página 467 - Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court, Yea, and of this our life : swearing, that we Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals, and to kill them up, In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.
Página 339 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...