The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7 |
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Upon this general infatuation Shakspeare might be easily allowed to found a play , especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment ...
Upon this general infatuation Shakspeare might be easily allowed to found a play , especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment ...
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Quarrel was formerly used for cause , or for the occasion of a quarrel , and is to be found in that sense in Holinshed's account of the story of Macbeth , who , upon the creation of the Prince of Cumberland , thought , says the ...
Quarrel was formerly used for cause , or for the occasion of a quarrel , and is to be found in that sense in Holinshed's account of the story of Macbeth , who , upon the creation of the Prince of Cumberland , thought , says the ...
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2 As whence the sun'gins his reflexion — ] The thought is expressed with some obscurity , but the plain meaning is this : As the same quarter , whence the blessing of day - light arises , sometimes sends us , by a dreadful reverse ...
2 As whence the sun'gins his reflexion — ] The thought is expressed with some obscurity , but the plain meaning is this : As the same quarter , whence the blessing of day - light arises , sometimes sends us , by a dreadful reverse ...
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... thought , however , Shakspeare might have been indebted to Caxton's Recuyel , & e . “ The batayll was sharp , than the grekes dowblid and redowblid their strokes , ” & c . Steevens . 8 Or memorize another Golgotha , ] That is ...
... thought , however , Shakspeare might have been indebted to Caxton's Recuyel , & e . “ The batayll was sharp , than the grekes dowblid and redowblid their strokes , ” & c . Steevens . 8 Or memorize another Golgotha , ] That is ...
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Present fears : Are less than horrible imaginings : 7 My thought , whose murder yet is but fantastical , Shakes so my single state of man , that function 1 : 66 “ From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck ” d the seated ...
Present fears : Are less than horrible imaginings : 7 My thought , whose murder yet is but fantastical , Shakes so my single state of man , that function 1 : 66 “ From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck ” d the seated ...
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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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