The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols]. |
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... better for their fimpleness , that is , her excellencies are the better because they are artlefs and open , without fraud , without defign . The learned commentator has well explained virtues , but has not , I think , reached the force ...
... better for their fimpleness , that is , her excellencies are the better because they are artlefs and open , without fraud , without defign . The learned commentator has well explained virtues , but has not , I think , reached the force ...
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... better qualifications . JOHNSON . 3 That is , may you be mistress of your wshes , and have power to bring them to effect . JOHNSON . 4 This paflage has been paffed over in filence by all the commentators , yet it is evidently defective ...
... better qualifications . JOHNSON . 3 That is , may you be mistress of your wshes , and have power to bring them to effect . JOHNSON . 4 This paflage has been paffed over in filence by all the commentators , yet it is evidently defective ...
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... better in your pye and your porridge , than in your cheek : And your virginity , your old virginity , is like one of our French wither'd pears ; it looks ill , it eats dryly ; marry , ' tis a wither'd pear ; it was formerly better ...
... better in your pye and your porridge , than in your cheek : And your virginity , your old virginity , is like one of our French wither'd pears ; it looks ill , it eats dryly ; marry , ' tis a wither'd pear ; it was formerly better ...
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... better opinion of their own importance , by his conde- fcending manner of behaving to them . M MASON . 6 Epitaph for character . I should wish to read- WARBURTON . Approof fo lives not in bis epitaph , As in your royal speech . Approof ...
... better opinion of their own importance , by his conde- fcending manner of behaving to them . M MASON . 6 Epitaph for character . I should wish to read- WARBURTON . Approof fo lives not in bis epitaph , As in your royal speech . Approof ...
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... better read : wherein the power Whe re Of my dear father's gift ftands chief in honour . JoHNSON . 2 The allufion is to St. Matthew's Gofpel , xi . 25. " O father , lord of heaven and earth , I thank thee , because thou haft hid thefe ...
... better read : wherein the power Whe re Of my dear father's gift ftands chief in honour . JoHNSON . 2 The allufion is to St. Matthew's Gofpel , xi . 25. " O father , lord of heaven and earth , I thank thee , because thou haft hid thefe ...
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Page 533 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 492 - 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 483 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 498 - So brainsickly of things. 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 230 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 473 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 470 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance : nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it ; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed* As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 321 - This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 467 - This supernatural soliciting 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...
Page 476 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...