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Title: The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Steevens, George, 1736-1800 Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807 Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
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Publisher: London : Printed for J. Johnson ... (et al.)
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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; Lear fays : You fulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white iiead ! M. MAS0^f. 5 fullen prefage—^ By the epithet_/?///e«, which cannofi be applied to a trumpet, it is plain that our authors imaginatioahad now fuggefted a new idea. It is as if he had faid, be airuvipet to alarm with our invafion, be a lird of ill omen toeroak out the prognoftick of your own ruin. Johnson. I do not fee why the epithet fullen may not be applied to atrumpet, with as much propriety as to a bell. In our authorsKing Henry IV. P. II. we find— Sounds ever after as z fullen lell—. Malone. That here are two ideas is evident; but the fecond of themhas not been luckily explained. The fullen prefage of if our owndecay, means, the difmai pajjing bell, that announces your ownapproaching dijjolution. Steevens. ® ——^the manage—) i.e. conduft, adminiflration. So, inKins Richard II: •for the rebels Expedient manage muft be made, my liege. Ss-BEVBN!
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