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... Silent Woman is built upon the supposition of an old citizen disliking noise , who takes to wife Epicene ( a supposed young lady ) for the reputation of her silence , and with a view to disinherit his nephew , who has laughed at his ...
... Silent Woman is built upon the supposition of an old citizen disliking noise , who takes to wife Epicene ( a supposed young lady ) for the reputation of her silence , and with a view to disinherit his nephew , who has laughed at his ...
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... women , of which he was fond . The following may serve as a specimen . Truewit says , Did I not tell thee , Dauphine ... silent gentlewoman , turns out not to be a woman at all ; which is not a very pleasant denouement of the plot , and ...
... women , of which he was fond . The following may serve as a specimen . Truewit says , Did I not tell thee , Dauphine ... silent gentlewoman , turns out not to be a woman at all ; which is not a very pleasant denouement of the plot , and ...
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... Wife , respectively . " All beyond Hyde Park , ' etc. Sir George Etherege's The Man of Mode , Act v . Scene 2 . ' Lay waste a country gentleman . ' Cf ... Silent Woman ( 1609 ) . PAGI 40. ' Bless'd conditions . ' Cf. Othello , 370 NOTES.
... Wife , respectively . " All beyond Hyde Park , ' etc. Sir George Etherege's The Man of Mode , Act v . Scene 2 . ' Lay waste a country gentleman . ' Cf ... Silent Woman ( 1609 ) . PAGI 40. ' Bless'd conditions . ' Cf. Othello , 370 NOTES.
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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