The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad, 1806 |
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... of Henry Peacham , who , in the year 1577 , published a book professing to treat of the ornaments of language . It is called The G irden of Eloquence , and has this passage : " Onoma- topeia , when we invent , devise , fayne , and make ...
... of Henry Peacham , who , in the year 1577 , published a book professing to treat of the ornaments of language . It is called The G irden of Eloquence , and has this passage : " Onoma- topeia , when we invent , devise , fayne , and make ...
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... King Henry VI , P. III : " Till our king Henry had shook hands with death . " Steevens . Mr. Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our ...
... King Henry VI , P. III : " Till our king Henry had shook hands with death . " Steevens . Mr. Pope , instead of which , here , and in many other places , reads - who . But there is no need of change . There is scarcely one of our ...
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... of ancient mythology . Henley . Our author might have been misled by Holinshed , who , p 567 , speaking of King Henry V , says : " He declared that the goddesse of battell , called Bellona , " & c . & c . Shakspeare , there- fore ...
... of ancient mythology . Henley . Our author might have been misled by Holinshed , who , p 567 , speaking of King Henry V , says : " He declared that the goddesse of battell , called Bellona , " & c . & c . Shakspeare , there- fore ...
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... of King John , 1591 : breathe out damned orisons , 66 “ As thick as bail - stones fore the spring's approach . " The emendation of the word can is supported by a passage in King Henry IV , P. II : " And there are twenty weak and wearied ...
... of King John , 1591 : breathe out damned orisons , 66 “ As thick as bail - stones fore the spring's approach . " The emendation of the word can is supported by a passage in King Henry IV , P. II : " And there are twenty weak and wearied ...
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... of his being thrusts 66 Against my nearest of life . ” Thrusted is the regular participle from the verb to thrust , and though now not often used , was , I believe , common in the time of Shakspeare . So , in King Henry V : " With ...
... of his being thrusts 66 Against my nearest of life . ” Thrusted is the regular participle from the verb to thrust , and though now not often used , was , I believe , common in the time of Shakspeare . So , in King Henry V : " With ...
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ancient Arthur Banquo Bast Bastard believe Ben Jonson blood breath called castle Cawdor Const Coriolanus crown Cymbeline death deed doth Duncan edit emendation England Enter Exeunt expression eyes father Faulconbridge fear folio France give hand hast hath heart heaven Hecate Henry VI Holinshed honour Hubert Iliad Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Henry IV King John King Richard Kyng Lady Macbeth lord Macb Macd Macduff Malcolm Malone Mason means murder nature night noble o'er observed old copy old play old reading peace perhaps poet Pope present prince Queen Rape of Lucrece Rosse sayd says scene Scotland seems sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies sleep speak speech spirit Steevens suppose Tale thane thee Theobald thine things thou art thought tragedy unto Warburton weird sisters Winter's Tale Witch word
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Page 135 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 14 - Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Page 375 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 382 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 83 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 100 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : — retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 71 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 173 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 51 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it : what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win...
Page 52 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad, 1806 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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