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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... the rock . The sea - mews make their nests in rocks close to the The manner in which the error took place is ob- vious . The transcriber formed the w in mews larger than the other letters connected with the word ; and 4 THE TEMPEST .
... the rock . The sea - mews make their nests in rocks close to the The manner in which the error took place is ob- vious . The transcriber formed the w in mews larger than the other letters connected with the word ; and 4 THE TEMPEST .
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... error originated : The compartments for the long ƒ and ƒ being next each other , these letters were frequently mixed ; and as it required a sharp eye to distinguish them , the compositor took up an instead of an ƒ , and produced the ...
... error originated : The compartments for the long ƒ and ƒ being next each other , these letters were frequently mixed ; and as it required a sharp eye to distinguish them , the compositor took up an instead of an ƒ , and produced the ...
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... error of the compositor , who taking the line on his mind forgot do , and composed know . - We should read : -For you love Hermia , this you do , I know . In the same speech , Lysander says , " And your's of Helena to me bequeath , Whom ...
... error of the compositor , who taking the line on his mind forgot do , and composed know . - We should read : -For you love Hermia , this you do , I know . In the same speech , Lysander says , " And your's of Helena to me bequeath , Whom ...
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... error originated thus : the person who read to the transcriber did not make sufficient pauses , and the names and words corresponded so well , that he , disregarding the sense , perceived not the blunder he was making . Moreover , are ...
... error originated thus : the person who read to the transcriber did not make sufficient pauses , and the names and words corresponded so well , that he , disregarding the sense , perceived not the blunder he was making . Moreover , are ...
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... error has kept the true sense of the passage long enough in darkness ; the light now thrown on it , will , I hope , have its effect . SCENE V. - page 211 . MRS . PAGE . Now , good sir John , how like you Windsor wives ? See you these ...
... error has kept the true sense of the passage long enough in darkness ; the light now thrown on it , will , I hope , have its effect . SCENE V. - page 211 . MRS . PAGE . Now , good sir John , how like you Windsor wives ? See you these ...
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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...
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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...