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, Volum 2J.R. Smith, 1859 |
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Side 483
... speak with me ? 8. A Kilkenny ring ; If There he stands , madam . B. and Fl . Coxc . , ii , 3 . Mr. Weber conjectures rung , a Scotch word for coarse heavy stuff ; but why a Scotch word should be applied to an Irishman , does not appear ...
... speak with me ? 8. A Kilkenny ring ; If There he stands , madam . B. and Fl . Coxc . , ii , 3 . Mr. Weber conjectures rung , a Scotch word for coarse heavy stuff ; but why a Scotch word should be applied to an Irishman , does not appear ...
Side 498
... speaks conformably to the etymology : Item , he saith , that these night - walking or rather night - dansing witches , brought out of Italie into France that dance which is called la volta . Discovery of Witchcraft , E 5 , b . tAnd ...
... speaks conformably to the etymology : Item , he saith , that these night - walking or rather night - dansing witches , brought out of Italie into France that dance which is called la volta . Discovery of Witchcraft , E 5 , b . tAnd ...
Side 501
... speaks of it as if it came from to leese , which means to lose . Chaucer's lines are these : Hasard is veray moder of lesinges , And of deceite , and cursed forsweringes . Where its sense is sufficiently fixed by its being united with ...
... speaks of it as if it came from to leese , which means to lose . Chaucer's lines are these : Hasard is veray moder of lesinges , And of deceite , and cursed forsweringes . Where its sense is sufficiently fixed by its being united with ...
Side 504
... speak with you . Much Ado , iii , 2 . Merch . of Venice , iv , 1 . I'm sorry that your leisure serves you not . Here to make good the boisterous late appeal Which then our leisure would not let us hear . Rich . II , i , 1 . In all these ...
... speak with you . Much Ado , iii , 2 . Merch . of Venice , iv , 1 . I'm sorry that your leisure serves you not . Here to make good the boisterous late appeal Which then our leisure would not let us hear . Rich . II , i , 1 . In all these ...
Side 518
... speaks of loaches being swal- lowed whole ; " to swallow Cupids like loaches . " This is curiously illustrated by Mr. Pennant , who says that this fish is frequent in a stream near Amesbury , " where the sports- men , through frolic ...
... speaks of loaches being swal- lowed whole ; " to swallow Cupids like loaches . " This is curiously illustrated by Mr. Pennant , who says that this fish is frequent in a stream near Amesbury , " where the sports- men , through frolic ...
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