The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological Commentary On His Jul
The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological Commentary On His Jul
George L George Lillie Craik
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. Walking. — In another connection this might mean, that there was no pos- sibility of walking ; but here the meaning apparently is that there was no walking going on. 130. The complexioit of the element. — That is, of the heaven, of the sky. North, in his Plutarch, speaks of " the fires in the element. " The word in this sense was much in favor with the fine writers or talkers of Shakespeare's day. He has a hit at the affectation in his Twelfth Night, iii. 1, where the Clown, conversing with V...iola, says, " Who you are, and what you would, are out of my welkin : I might say, element : but the word is over-worn. " Of course, welkin is, and is intended to be, far more absurd. Yet we have element for the sky or the air in other passages besides the present. Thus : — sc. In. ] Julius Caesar. 199 The element itself, . . . Shall not behold her face at ample view. Twelfth Night, i. 1. " I, in the clear sky of fame, o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element, which show like pins' heads to her" {Falstaff, in 2 Hen.
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