The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... fhould be for only changing the order of the words , and reading : That only true to make we now intend : i . e . that now we intend to exhibit only what is true . This paffage , and others of this Prologue , in which great ftrefs is ...
... fhould be for only changing the order of the words , and reading : That only true to make we now intend : i . e . that now we intend to exhibit only what is true . This paffage , and others of this Prologue , in which great ftrefs is ...
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... I cannot tell " What heaven hath given him : " which confirms the juftnefs of this amendment . I fhould other- wife have thought Steevens's explanation right . M. MASON . Peep through each part of him : Whence has he 14 KING HENRY VIII .
... I cannot tell " What heaven hath given him : " which confirms the juftnefs of this amendment . I fhould other- wife have thought Steevens's explanation right . M. MASON . Peep through each part of him : Whence has he 14 KING HENRY VIII .
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... fhould attend on him ? He makes up the files Of all the gentry ; for the most part fuch Too , whom as great a charge as little honour He meant to lay upon : and his own letter , The honourable board of council out , " Muft fetch him in ...
... fhould attend on him ? He makes up the files Of all the gentry ; for the most part fuch Too , whom as great a charge as little honour He meant to lay upon : and his own letter , The honourable board of council out , " Muft fetch him in ...
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... fhould be blame not . Whom from the flow of gall I blame not . JOHNSON . 6 - for he is equal ravenous , ] Equal for equally . Shakspeare frequently ufes adjectives adverbially . See King John , Vol . VIII . p . 176 , n . 6. MALONE . 7 ...
... fhould be blame not . Whom from the flow of gall I blame not . JOHNSON . 6 - for he is equal ravenous , ] Equal for equally . Shakspeare frequently ufes adjectives adverbially . See King John , Vol . VIII . p . 176 , n . 6. MALONE . 7 ...
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... fhould here rife again to a height fo truly fublime ? where , by the nobleft ftretch of fancy , Danger is perfonalized as ferving in the rebel army , and shaking the established government . WARBURTON . Chaucer , Gower , Skelton , and ...
... fhould here rife again to a height fo truly fublime ? where , by the nobleft ftretch of fancy , Danger is perfonalized as ferving in the rebel army , and shaking the established government . WARBURTON . Chaucer , Gower , Skelton , and ...
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Achilles againſt AGAM Agamemnon Ajax Alcibiades alfo Antony and Cleopatra APEM Apemantus becauſe buſineſs Calchas cardinal Creffida CRES defire Diomed doth emendation Enter Exeunt expreffion faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fent fervant fhall fhould fignifies fimilar firft firſt folio fome fool fpeak fpeech ftand ftate ftill fuch fuppofe fure fweet fword GENT Hanmer hath heart heaven HECT Hector himſelf Holinfhed honour inftance itſelf JOHNSON King Henry King Lear lady laft lord Lord Chamberlain mafter MALONE means meaſure moft moſt muft muſt myſelf noble obferved occafion old copy paffage Pandarus Patroclus perfon play pleaſe pleaſure poet prefent quarto queen Rape of Lucrece reafon Shakspeare ſhall ſhe Sir Thomas Hanmer ſpeak ſtate STEEVENS thee thefe THEOBALD THER theſe thofe thoſe thou Timon Troilus Troy ufed underſtand uſed WARBURTON whofe Wolfey word
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Page 131 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 543 - Demand me nothing ; what you know, you know : From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 76 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 137 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Page 135 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of...
Page 136 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Page 252 - Amidst the other : whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad : but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander.
Page 131 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, }Never to hope again.
Page 350 - There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never meddle) in the soul of state; Which hath an operation more divine, Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to...