The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index, Volume 7 |
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... perhaps the application of it had in no foregoing age been so frequent , nor the reception so general . Olympiodorus , in Photius's Extracts , tells us of one Libanius , who practised this kind of military magic , and having promised ...
... perhaps the application of it had in no foregoing age been so frequent , nor the reception so general . Olympiodorus , in Photius's Extracts , tells us of one Libanius , who practised this kind of military magic , and having promised ...
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... perhaps been misunderstood . The meaning seems to be , not that the Norweyan banners proudly insulted the sky ; but that , the standards being taken by Duncan's forces , and fixed in the ground , the colours idly flapped about , serving ...
... perhaps been misunderstood . The meaning seems to be , not that the Norweyan banners proudly insulted the sky ; but that , the standards being taken by Duncan's forces , and fixed in the ground , the colours idly flapped about , serving ...
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... perhaps the sea - chart , so called in our au- thor's age . Thus , in The Loyal Subject , by Beaumont and Fletcher : " The card of goodness in your minds , that shews you " When you sail false . " Again , in Churchyard's Prayse and ...
... perhaps the sea - chart , so called in our au- thor's age . Thus , in The Loyal Subject , by Beaumont and Fletcher : " The card of goodness in your minds , that shews you " When you sail false . " Again , in Churchyard's Prayse and ...
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... perhaps our au- thor's allusion is sufficiently plain . Steevens . 8 The weird sisters , hand in hand , ] These weird sisters , were the Fates of the northern nations ; the three handmaids of Odin . He nominantur Valkyrie , quas quodvis ...
... perhaps our au- thor's allusion is sufficiently plain . Steevens . 8 The weird sisters , hand in hand , ] These weird sisters , were the Fates of the northern nations ; the three handmaids of Odin . He nominantur Valkyrie , quas quodvis ...
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... perhaps only typo- graphically , corrupted to Synele in Hector Boethius , from whom , by means of his old Scottish translator , it came to the knowledge of Holinshed , was Finleg . Both Finlay and Macbeath are com- mon surnames in ...
... perhaps only typo- graphically , corrupted to Synele in Hector Boethius , from whom , by means of his old Scottish translator , it came to the knowledge of Holinshed , was Finleg . Both Finlay and Macbeath are com- mon surnames in ...
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Page 373 - 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 378 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 98 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 76 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Page 69 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 133 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further ! Lady M.
Page 169 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 94 - Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Macb. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on "t again I dare not.
Page 38 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 207 - Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.