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He denies it to Laertes, of course, characterising his madness as the actual culprit, literally saying it was not him: "If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,/And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,/Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it."
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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He denies it to Laertes, of course, characterising his madness as the actual culprit, literally saying it was not him: "If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,/And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,/Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it."
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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I used to wonder, reading 'Even as the sun with purple-coloured face/Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn', and then reading the scholarly footnote to the effect that 'for the Elizabethans, purple was a colour much closer to the modern understanding of "red" than to the modern understanding of "purple"'.
Rednesses Adam Roberts Project 2007
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I used to wonder, reading 'Even as the sun with purple-coloured face/Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn', and then reading the scholarly footnote to the effect that 'for the Elizabethans, purple was a colour much closer to the modern understanding of "red" than to the modern understanding of "purple"'.
Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
02.04 M-mv 2004
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
02.04 M-mv 2004
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
"[A]nd never a nervous breakdown." M-mv 2004
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
Archive 2004-03-01 M-mv 2004
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
03.04 M-mv 2004
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Now I'm no expert, but I'd reckon that Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb would be a little ta'en aback by all of the bellyachin 'and handwringin' that passes for mothering and homemaking in the begininning of this, the twenty-first century.
03.04 M-mv 2004
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