The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd, Volume 2 |
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... lefs intent On fpreading falfhood , than reporting truth . & c . Atria turba tenent , & c . : See Trap . Virg . Æn . 4 * Hither in crowds the vulgar come and go ; Millions of rumours here fly to and fro : Lies mixt with truth , reports ...
... lefs intent On fpreading falfhood , than reporting truth . & c . Atria turba tenent , & c . : See Trap . Virg . Æn . 4 * Hither in crowds the vulgar come and go ; Millions of rumours here fly to and fro : Lies mixt with truth , reports ...
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... lefs authorities than thofe of Efchylus and Sophocles , who fay almoft the fame thing with our author here . " Ωμοι , & c . Alas ! the bringer of unwelcome news Hath but an evil and unwelcome office .. The ingrateful task of bringing ...
... lefs authorities than thofe of Efchylus and Sophocles , who fay almoft the fame thing with our author here . " Ωμοι , & c . Alas ! the bringer of unwelcome news Hath but an evil and unwelcome office .. The ingrateful task of bringing ...
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William Shakespeare William Dodd. Greater griefs defiroy the lefs . As the wretch , whofe fever - weaken'd joints , Like strengthless hinges , buckle under life , Impatient of his fit , breaks like a fire Out of his keeper's arms ; ev'n ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. Greater griefs defiroy the lefs . As the wretch , whofe fever - weaken'd joints , Like strengthless hinges , buckle under life , Impatient of his fit , breaks like a fire Out of his keeper's arms ; ev'n ...
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... th ' inhabitants of earth . THEOBALD . ( 2 ) And whipt , & c . ] Shakespear enriched himself , and greatly improved his incomparable genius from the fcriptures , that end- lefs Leaving his body as a paradife ; T'invelope and contain.
... th ' inhabitants of earth . THEOBALD . ( 2 ) And whipt , & c . ] Shakespear enriched himself , and greatly improved his incomparable genius from the fcriptures , that end- lefs Leaving his body as a paradife ; T'invelope and contain.
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... lefs fource of true knowledge and fublimity : this Mr. Upton has judiciously obferved , who remarks on this paffage , that " < cording to the fcripture - expreffion , the old Adam , or the old Man , radaros avłęwπ05 , fignifies man in ...
... lefs fource of true knowledge and fublimity : this Mr. Upton has judiciously obferved , who remarks on this paffage , that " < cording to the fcripture - expreffion , the old Adam , or the old Man , radaros avłęwπ05 , fignifies man in ...
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Popular passages
Page 101 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 101 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 142 - Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 239 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 102 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 122 - Alas! sir, are you here? things that love night love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves. Since I was man such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry the affliction nor the fear.
Page 52 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 93 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Page 110 - O Cassius ! you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire, Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 116 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...