You have an aspect. Id., iv. 1. 46.
a preceding elision. “Thus a line in Hamlet's description of the Player should be printed as in the old Folios:
“Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,”
agreeably to the accent in a hundred other places” (Farmer).
This very accent, etc. This passage, down to the end of the quotation from Thomson (top of p. [183]), was added in the second edition.
Bentley. Preface to his edition of Paradise Lost, 1732.
[180]. Manwaring, Edward. See his treatise Of Harmony and Numbers in Latin and English Prose, and in English Poetry (1744), p. 49.
Green. May this “extraordinary gentleman” be George Smith Green, the Oxford watchmaker, author of a prose rendering of Milton's Paradise Lost, 1745; or Edward Burnaby Greene, author of Poetical Essays, 1772, and of translations from the classics? There is no copy of the “Specimen of a new Version of the Paradise Lost into blank verse” in the Library of the British Museum, nor in any public collection which the present editor has consulted.
Dee, John (1527-1608), astrologer.
Strike up, my masters. Double Falshood, Act i., Sc. 3.