Shakspeare's Genius Justified: Being Restorations and Illustrations of Seven Hundred Passages in Shakspeare's Plays: which Have Afforded Abundant Scope for Critical Animadversion; and Hitherto Held at Defiance the Penetration of All Shakspeare's Commentators, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1819 - 470 pages |
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... changed the definite for the indefinite article ; and thus perverted the Author's mean- ing , by leaving Prospero two - thirds of his life in reserve . We should read : If I have too austerely punish'd you , Your compensation makes ...
... changed the definite for the indefinite article ; and thus perverted the Author's mean- ing , by leaving Prospero two - thirds of his life in reserve . We should read : If I have too austerely punish'd you , Your compensation makes ...
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... changed . Helena having signified to Demetrius , that Lysander and Hermia intend to elope ; Demetrius , jealous of the one , and winged by passion for the other , pursues them . Now , according to Dr. Thirlby's correction , Is it said ...
... changed . Helena having signified to Demetrius , that Lysander and Hermia intend to elope ; Demetrius , jealous of the one , and winged by passion for the other , pursues them . Now , according to Dr. Thirlby's correction , Is it said ...
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... for do in : the word dole might also have been unfamiliar to the transcriber : -in , as changed by Sir T. Hanmer for it , must again resume its situation . If the Duke's A few words more in defence of 40 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... for do in : the word dole might also have been unfamiliar to the transcriber : -in , as changed by Sir T. Hanmer for it , must again resume its situation . If the Duke's A few words more in defence of 40 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... changed the word Making to Mocking ; and for which , he observes , that he is ac- countable . But , however judicious this alteration may have appeared , I expect it must give way to the origi- nal reading . The old mode of spelling ...
... changed the word Making to Mocking ; and for which , he observes , that he is ac- countable . But , however judicious this alteration may have appeared , I expect it must give way to the origi- nal reading . The old mode of spelling ...
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... changed tranect to traject , which , though it made gross tautology , was adopted by all the subsequent Editors . 22 SCENE V. - page 338 . LORENZO . Goodly lord , what a wit - srapper are you ! False punctuation has rendered this ...
... changed tranect to traject , which , though it made gross tautology , was adopted by all the subsequent Editors . 22 SCENE V. - page 338 . LORENZO . Goodly lord , what a wit - srapper are you ! False punctuation has rendered this ...
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Page 280 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 173 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 151 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good ; if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am Thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 330 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 277 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 154 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 96 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 30 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 341 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 282 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...