Chapter 12 of The Shakespeare-Expositor is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Shakespeare-Expositor is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
* * * * * "They have been absent. 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells." We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.' ACT III. SC.
Chapter 12 of The Shakespeare-Expositor is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
not being in a specified place
From this reading “* * * * * "They have been absent.”
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading “ACT III.”
in addition
From this reading “We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'”
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading “We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'”
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
From this reading “We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'”
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading “We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'”
move hurridly
From this reading “'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."”
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading “'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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not being in a specified place
From this reading * * * * * "They have been absent.
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading ACT III.
in addition
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."
the past participle of “be”
From this reading * * * * * "They have been absent.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading * * * * * "They have been absent.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading ACT III.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
From this reading SC.
move hurridly
From this reading 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading * * * * * "They have been absent.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
in the company of; together with
From this reading We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'
Chapter 12 of The Shakespeare-Expositor by Thomas Keightley holds 389 sentences, grouped into 78 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 389 sentences of The Shakespeare-Expositor, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Shakespeare-Expositor by Thomas Keightley exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 389 sentences, grouped into 78 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 78 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 78 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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