Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
describe a man suffering with a disease of whatever sort. Yet “sick” is supported by the very best literary authority. The term occurs again and again in Elizabethan literature. Reference to Bartlett’s concordance will convince even the most skeptical that the word abounds in...
describe a man suffering with a disease of whatever sort. Yet “sick” is supported by the very best literary authority. The term occurs again and again in Elizabethan literature....
2. scene 1), Shakespeare makes Helena say, “Sickness is catching”; againin “Cymbeline” (act 5, scene 4), we read, “Yet am I better than one that’s sick of the gout”; and in “Romeo and Juliet” (act 5, scene 2), we read, “Here in this city visiting th...
3. scene 1):But this meaning of “guess” is common throughout the entire history of English literature, for the word has always borne the sense of think, cheek by jowl with its specific mean...