The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 2C. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... because he was in authority fuperior to Escalus . -old Efcalus , Though firft in queftion , is thy fecondary . WARBURTON . This editor is , I think , right in fuppofing a corruption , but lefs happy in his emendation . I read , we have ...
... because he was in authority fuperior to Escalus . -old Efcalus , Though firft in queftion , is thy fecondary . WARBURTON . This editor is , I think , right in fuppofing a corruption , but lefs happy in his emendation . I read , we have ...
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... because the nature of things is unalterable ; grace is as immutably grace , as his merry antagonist is a vicked villain . Difference in religion can- not make a grace not to be grace , a prayer not to be holy ; as no- thing can make a ...
... because the nature of things is unalterable ; grace is as immutably grace , as his merry antagonist is a vicked villain . Difference in religion can- not make a grace not to be grace , a prayer not to be holy ; as no- thing can make a ...
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... Because we see it ; but what we do not fee , We tread upon , and never think of it . You may not fo extenuate his offence , For I have had fuch faults ; but rather tell me , When I that cenfure him do so offend , Let mine own judgment ...
... Because we see it ; but what we do not fee , We tread upon , and never think of it . You may not fo extenuate his offence , For I have had fuch faults ; but rather tell me , When I that cenfure him do so offend , Let mine own judgment ...
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... because it is an open room , and good for winter . Clown . Why , very well then ; -I hope here be truths . Ang . This will last out a night in Ruffia , When nights are longeft there : I'll take my leave , And leave you to the hearing of ...
... because it is an open room , and good for winter . Clown . Why , very well then ; -I hope here be truths . Ang . This will last out a night in Ruffia , When nights are longeft there : I'll take my leave , And leave you to the hearing of ...
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... because he hath fome offences in him , that thou wouldst discover if thou couldft , let him continue in his courses , till thou know'ft what they are . Elb . Marry , I thank your worship for it : -Thou feeft , thou wicked varlet now ...
... because he hath fome offences in him , that thou wouldst discover if thou couldft , let him continue in his courses , till thou know'ft what they are . Elb . Marry , I thank your worship for it : -Thou feeft , thou wicked varlet now ...
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PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Samuel 1649-1703 Johnson,George 1736-1800 Steevens No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 401 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 47 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 518 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 9 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 32 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 462 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 339 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...