The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 14F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... passage find . " Again , in Decker's Honest Whore , already quoted : 66 66 Cut off his beard . ” ' Fye , fye ; idle , idle ; he's no Frenchman , to fret at the loss of little scal'd hair . " In the North they say scale the corn , i . e ...
... passage find . " Again , in Decker's Honest Whore , already quoted : 66 66 Cut off his beard . ” ' Fye , fye ; idle , idle ; he's no Frenchman , to fret at the loss of little scal'd hair . " In the North they say scale the corn , i . e ...
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... passage . It is thus used in Richard II . Act III . Sc . IV . : " Yea , distaff - women manage rusty bills 66 Against thy seat . " . It should be observed too , that one of the Citizens had just be- fore characterized these principal ...
... passage . It is thus used in Richard II . Act III . Sc . IV . : " Yea , distaff - women manage rusty bills 66 Against thy seat . " . It should be observed too , that one of the Citizens had just be- fore characterized these principal ...
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... passage , Steevens asserts , that quarry means game pursued or killed , and supports that opinion by a passage in Massinger's Guardian : and from thence I suppose the word was used to express a heap of slaughtered persons . In the ...
... passage , Steevens asserts , that quarry means game pursued or killed , and supports that opinion by a passage in Massinger's Guardian : and from thence I suppose the word was used to express a heap of slaughtered persons . In the ...
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... Venice : " And I am prest unto it . " See note on this passage , vol . v . p . 17. STEEVENS . The spelling of the old copy proves nothing , for participles were Whether for east , or west : The dearth is 24 ACT 1 . CORIOLANUS .
... Venice : " And I am prest unto it . " See note on this passage , vol . v . p . 17. STEEVENS . The spelling of the old copy proves nothing , for participles were Whether for east , or west : The dearth is 24 ACT 1 . CORIOLANUS .
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... passage , like almost every other abrupt sentence in these plays , was rendered unintelligible in the old copy by inaccurate punctuation . See vol . iv . p . 309 , n . 6 ; vol . vii . p . 125 , n . 8 . For the present regulation I am ...
... passage , like almost every other abrupt sentence in these plays , was rendered unintelligible in the old copy by inaccurate punctuation . See vol . iv . p . 309 , n . 6 ; vol . vii . p . 125 , n . 8 . For the present regulation I am ...
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Page 350 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art ~\\ hich does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature.
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Page 214 - What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! You have won a happy victory to Rome ; But, for your son, — believe it, O, believe it, — Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him.