The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 6C. and A. Conrad, 1805 |
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... passage has particu- Jar humour in it , and must have been very pleasing at that time of day . But I must clear up a piece of stage history to make it understood . There is a fustian old play called Hieronymo ; or The Spanish Tragedy ...
... passage has particu- Jar humour in it , and must have been very pleasing at that time of day . But I must clear up a piece of stage history to make it understood . There is a fustian old play called Hieronymo ; or The Spanish Tragedy ...
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... passage from the same play in which that scrap of Spanish is found , viz . The Spanish Tragedy . He after- wards ... passages in The Spanish Tragedy here alluded to . One quoted by Mr. Theobald , and this other : " What outcry ...
... passage from the same play in which that scrap of Spanish is found , viz . The Spanish Tragedy . He after- wards ... passages in The Spanish Tragedy here alluded to . One quoted by Mr. Theobald , and this other : " What outcry ...
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... passage of More , just cited , that it was sometimes applied in a general sense , and may therefore be so understood in the passage before us ; and it may be added , that brache appears to be used in the same sense by Beaumont and ...
... passage of More , just cited , that it was sometimes applied in a general sense , and may therefore be so understood in the passage before us ; and it may be added , that brache appears to be used in the same sense by Beaumont and ...
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... passage before us , and the manner in which the next line is connected with this , [ And couple & c . ] added to the circumstance of the word brach occurring in the end of that line , incline me to think that Brach is here a corruption ...
... passage before us , and the manner in which the next line is connected with this , [ And couple & c . ] added to the circumstance of the word brach occurring in the end of that line , incline me to think that Brach is here a corruption ...
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... passage of his preface : “ - the top of the profession were then mere play- ers , not gentlemen of the stage ; they were led into the buttery by the steward , not placed at the lord's table , or the lady's toi- lette . " But he seems ...
... passage of his preface : “ - the top of the profession were then mere play- ers , not gentlemen of the stage ; they were led into the buttery by the steward , not placed at the lord's table , or the lady's toi- lette . " But he seems ...
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Page 237 - I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest : for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Page 264 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 376 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
Page 123 - Well, come, my Kate ; we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments ; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor : For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.