Shakespeare's Testamentary LanguageLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 56 pages |
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... Author of ' Shakespeare a Lawyer , ' ' Shakespeare's Legal Maxims , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors , ' & c . LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1871 , July 1 . Shapleigh Fund ...
... Author of ' Shakespeare a Lawyer , ' ' Shakespeare's Legal Maxims , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors , ' & c . LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1871 , July 1 . Shapleigh Fund ...
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... Author of ' Shakespeare a Lawyer , ' ' Shakespeare's Legal Maxims , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors , & c . LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1871 , July 1 . Shapligh Fund ...
... Author of ' Shakespeare a Lawyer , ' ' Shakespeare's Legal Maxims , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta , ' ' Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors , & c . LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1871 , July 1 . Shapligh Fund ...
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... writers which handle the one , but they also touch the other . In the determination whereof , if the ... old authors for ' which . ' ' Cleave , ' to cling to , adhere . Isab . To this pernicious caitiff deputy , - I went ...
... writers which handle the one , but they also touch the other . In the determination whereof , if the ... old authors for ' which . ' ' Cleave , ' to cling to , adhere . Isab . To this pernicious caitiff deputy , - I went ...
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... Old Authors , ' * 2nd Part , page 14 ) , that Shakespeare in this and many other passages uses the figure of Store , for he here speaks of that ' obscene and most preposterous event , ' multiplying speech by using many words of one ...
... Old Authors , ' * 2nd Part , page 14 ) , that Shakespeare in this and many other passages uses the figure of Store , for he here speaks of that ' obscene and most preposterous event , ' multiplying speech by using many words of one ...
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... Old Authors ( Longmans ) -does not aim at proving anything in particular . Its object is to explain obscure pas- sages and expressions of doubtful meaning which occur in Shakespeare by reference to other old writers - not necessarily to ...
... Old Authors ( Longmans ) -does not aim at proving anything in particular . Its object is to explain obscure pas- sages and expressions of doubtful meaning which occur in Shakespeare by reference to other old writers - not necessarily to ...
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AIGBURTH APPENDIX bequest of soul Berlin Society Campbell's cautele under heaven chattels child civill lawe cleave commit common law Cowell custom death differeth disposing divers doth executor Faerie Queene former furor or insanitie generall hath heir heir-looms Henrie Swinburn Henry Herne the hunter honour Illustrated by Old insanitie of minde inventoried Julius Cæsar label Laertes lands Launce legacie legatarie Lex Scripta London Lord Campbell Macbeth Madfolkes maie ment Merchant of Venice Old Authors passage personal property praise province of Yorke real property Richard II Romeo and Juliet sense Shakespeare a Lawyer Shakespeare Illustrated Shakespeare's Legal Maxims SHAKESPEARE'S TESTAMENTARY LANGUAGE sick in body signification single bond souldier speak Sprachen Swin Swinburn tenements Testament and Last testator dooth testator having bequeathed testator saie thee thing thou tuition tutor Twelfth Night unthrifte unto whereof wife WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON word bequeath word devise
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Page 26 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 32 - Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 10 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 43 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Page 3 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad : 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 4 Cit.
Page 3 - Have patience, gentle friends; I must not read it : It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men, And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O ! what would come of it ? 4 Cit.