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... doubt , founded individually it is not the case . Beside , the injuries in question are held out by me as beacons for unworldly men : the " higher order , " as Johnson emphatically terms them , and with truth . When , therefore , the ...
... doubt , founded individually it is not the case . Beside , the injuries in question are held out by me as beacons for unworldly men : the " higher order , " as Johnson emphatically terms them , and with truth . When , therefore , the ...
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... doubt weeping . But one eye de- lighted , and the other weeping , ( and so the Editors seem to understand the passage ) is much too ludicrous here ; and hence , perhaps , the reading of the quarto ' an ' and a . ' In the Winter's Tale ...
... doubt weeping . But one eye de- lighted , and the other weeping , ( and so the Editors seem to understand the passage ) is much too ludicrous here ; and hence , perhaps , the reading of the quarto ' an ' and a . ' In the Winter's Tale ...
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... doubt , but not so inveterate a one , but that , by the change of a single letter , and the separation of two words mistakenly jumbled together , I am verily persuaded , I have retrieved the poet's reading - That he might not let c'en ...
... doubt , but not so inveterate a one , but that , by the change of a single letter , and the separation of two words mistakenly jumbled together , I am verily persuaded , I have retrieved the poet's reading - That he might not let c'en ...
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... doubt the true reading is , -with th ' effect of fear . WARBURTON . Here is an affectation of subtilty without accuracy . Fear is every day considered as an agent . Fear laid hold on him ; fear drove him away . If it were proper to be ...
... doubt the true reading is , -with th ' effect of fear . WARBURTON . Here is an affectation of subtilty without accuracy . Fear is every day considered as an agent . Fear laid hold on him ; fear drove him away . If it were proper to be ...
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... doubt , To his own scandal . I do not remember a passage throughout all our poet's works , more intricate and depraved in the text , of less mean- ing to outward appearance , or more likely to baffle the at- tempts of criticism in its ...
... doubt , To his own scandal . I do not remember a passage throughout all our poet's works , more intricate and depraved in the text , of less mean- ing to outward appearance , or more likely to baffle the at- tempts of criticism in its ...
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Popular passages
Page 194 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ : this may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison : — Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But, with a little act upon the blood, Bum like the mines of sulphur.
Page 2 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 92 - But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 286 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 218 - Eyes, look your last ! Arms, take your last embrace ! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death ! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide ! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. Here's to my love ! \Drinks.} O true apothecary ! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Page 96 - 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 ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 8 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, That can denote me truly...
Page 24 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 105 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 89 - 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 ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...