Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, the Whole of His Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes Compiled from Various CommentatorsJohn Stockdale, 1784 - 1079 pages |
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... fignifies here , as in many other places of our author's plays , to swn . & Confute thee . Thou think'st , there are no more fuch shapes as. : Fer . Where should this music be ? i ' the air , or the It founds no more : and fure , it ...
... fignifies here , as in many other places of our author's plays , to swn . & Confute thee . Thou think'st , there are no more fuch shapes as. : Fer . Where should this music be ? i ' the air , or the It founds no more : and fure , it ...
Page 11
... fignifies ftool in every sense of the word , and is powerb , that good liquor will make a cat fpeak . Poverb , A long Spoon to eat with the deyil , bare uied in the dirtieft , Ca Cal . I'll shew thee every fertile inch o ' TEMPEST .
... fignifies ftool in every sense of the word , and is powerb , that good liquor will make a cat fpeak . Poverb , A long Spoon to eat with the deyil , bare uied in the dirtieft , Ca Cal . I'll shew thee every fertile inch o ' TEMPEST .
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... fignifies alienation of mind . fion is here used in its primitive fenfe of Sprinkling . 4 That is , bring more than ... fignify broom Bushes . 1 1 That is , forsaken of his mistress . 2 Being SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS .
... fignifies alienation of mind . fion is here used in its primitive fenfe of Sprinkling . 4 That is , bring more than ... fignify broom Bushes . 1 1 That is , forsaken of his mistress . 2 Being SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS .
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... fignifies - love . Shal . The luce 5 is the fresh fish ; the falt fish is an old coat . Slen . I may quarter , coz . Shal . You may , by marrying . Eva . It is marring , indeed , if he quarter it . Queen Elizabeth was fo well pleased ...
... fignifies - love . Shal . The luce 5 is the fresh fish ; the falt fish is an old coat . Slen . I may quarter , coz . Shal . You may , by marrying . Eva . It is marring , indeed , if he quarter it . Queen Elizabeth was fo well pleased ...
Page 46
... fignifies fecrecy ; and his meaning feems to be , ' Twere better for you if it were known only in fecrecy , i . e . among your friends . 4 Worts was the ancient name of all the cabbage kind , coney - catcher was , in the time of ...
... fignifies fecrecy ; and his meaning feems to be , ' Twere better for you if it were known only in fecrecy , i . e . among your friends . 4 Worts was the ancient name of all the cabbage kind , coney - catcher was , in the time of ...
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Page 320 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 403 - 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 429 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 447 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 10 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 368 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 232 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 195 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 369 - I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 368 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i