The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. IH. Baldwin, 1793 - English drama |
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... See a more minute account of this fraud in An Attempt to afcertain the order of Shakspeare's Plays , Vol . I. Our author's King John was written , I imagine , in 1596. The reafons on which this opinion is founded , may be found in that ...
... See a more minute account of this fraud in An Attempt to afcertain the order of Shakspeare's Plays , Vol . I. Our author's King John was written , I imagine , in 1596. The reafons on which this opinion is founded , may be found in that ...
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... See King Lear , Act III . fc . ii . Antony and Cleopatra , Act II . fc . v . Julius Cafar , Act I. fc . iii . and ftill more decifively in Measure for Meajure , Act II . fc . ii . This old fuperftition is still prevalent in many parts ...
... See King Lear , Act III . fc . ii . Antony and Cleopatra , Act II . fc . v . Julius Cafar , Act I. fc . iii . and ftill more decifively in Measure for Meajure , Act II . fc . ii . This old fuperftition is still prevalent in many parts ...
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... See p . 27 , n . 9 , and p . 28 , n . 2. MALONE . The omiffion of this incident was natural . Shakspeare having familiarized the story to his own imagination , forgot that it was obfcure to his audience ; or what is equally probable ...
... See p . 27 , n . 9 , and p . 28 , n . 2. MALONE . The omiffion of this incident was natural . Shakspeare having familiarized the story to his own imagination , forgot that it was obfcure to his audience ; or what is equally probable ...
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... violent proceedings all my neighbours fhall cry aim . " See the note on that paflage . STEEVENS . For our advantage - Therefore , hear us firft . ] If we read- These flags of France , that are advanced here Before KING JOHN . 43.
... violent proceedings all my neighbours fhall cry aim . " See the note on that paflage . STEEVENS . For our advantage - Therefore , hear us firft . ] If we read- These flags of France , that are advanced here Before KING JOHN . 43.
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... . To him that owes it ; ] i . e . owns it . See our author and his contemporaries , paflim . So , in Othello : 65 that fweet fleep " That thou ow'dft yesterday . " STEEVENS . ' Tis not the roundure of your old - fac'd KING 45 JOHN .
... . To him that owes it ; ] i . e . owns it . See our author and his contemporaries , paflim . So , in Othello : 65 that fweet fleep " That thou ow'dft yesterday . " STEEVENS . ' Tis not the roundure of your old - fac'd KING 45 JOHN .
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Page 126 - 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 112 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 76 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 120 - I knit my handkerchief about your brows, (The best I had ; a princess wrought it me,) And I did never ask it you again ; And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time ; Saying, What lack you ? and, Where lies your grief?
Page 361 - To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Page 392 - Took it in snuff; and still he smil'd and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 391 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 490 - GLENDOWER I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
Page 589 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit : To die is to be a counterfeit ; for he. is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man...
Page 570 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.