The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... expression seems to have been proverbial . Spenser has it in the 4th Book of the Faery Queen : 66 Then fair grew ... expressions . That historian , in his account of Macdowald's rebellion , mentions , that on the first appearance of a ...
... expression seems to have been proverbial . Spenser has it in the 4th Book of the Faery Queen : 66 Then fair grew ... expressions . That historian , in his account of Macdowald's rebellion , mentions , that on the first appearance of a ...
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... expression ; or whether of be a corruption of the editors , who took Kernes and Gallowglasses , which were only light and heavy armed foot , to be the names of two of the western islands , I don't know . " Hinc conjectura vigorem etiam ...
... expression ; or whether of be a corruption of the editors , who took Kernes and Gallowglasses , which were only light and heavy armed foot , to be the names of two of the western islands , I don't know . " Hinc conjectura vigorem etiam ...
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... expression not more loudly to be applauded , or more easily pardoned , than that which is rejected in its favour . That a cannon is charged with thunder , or with double thunders , may be written , not only without nonsense , but with ...
... expression not more loudly to be applauded , or more easily pardoned , than that which is rejected in its favour . That a cannon is charged with thunder , or with double thunders , may be written , not only without nonsense , but with ...
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... expression occurs in All's lost by Lust , 1633 , by Rowley : or is that thing , 66 ---- " Which would supply the place of soul in thee , " Merely phantastical ? " Shakspeare , however , took the word from Holinshed , who in his account ...
... expression occurs in All's lost by Lust , 1633 , by Rowley : or is that thing , 66 ---- " Which would supply the place of soul in thee , " Merely phantastical ? " Shakspeare , however , took the word from Holinshed , who in his account ...
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... expression in the old play of King John , 1591 : 66 breathe out damned orisons , " As thick as bail - stones fore the spring's approach . ” The emendation of the word can is supported by a passage in King Henry IV , P. II : " And there ...
... expression in the old play of King John , 1591 : 66 breathe out damned orisons , " As thick as bail - stones fore the spring's approach . ” The emendation of the word can is supported by a passage in King Henry IV , P. II : " And there ...
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Page 16 - What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.
Page 379 - 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 85 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 102 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 240 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 386 - 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 42 - 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 149 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a thought...
Page 70 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.