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Page 85
Though all the copies concur in this reading , yet as untrimmed cannot bear any
signification to square with the sense required , I cannot help thinking it a
corrupted reading . I have ventured to throw out the negative , and read : In
likeness of a ...
Though all the copies concur in this reading , yet as untrimmed cannot bear any
signification to square with the sense required , I cannot help thinking it a
corrupted reading . I have ventured to throw out the negative , and read : In
likeness of a ...
Page 152
In both these places , the word convertite means a repenting finner ; not , as
Steevens says , a convert , by which , in the language of the present time , is
meant a person who changes from one religion to another ; in which sense the
word ...
In both these places , the word convertite means a repenting finner ; not , as
Steevens says , a convert , by which , in the language of the present time , is
meant a person who changes from one religion to another ; in which sense the
word ...
Page 272
Sense might be obtained by a Night transposition , without changing the words of
the original text : That when the searching eye of heaven , that lights The lower
world , is hid behind the globe ; By the lower world , as the passage is amended ...
Sense might be obtained by a Night transposition , without changing the words of
the original text : That when the searching eye of heaven , that lights The lower
world , is hid behind the globe ; By the lower world , as the passage is amended ...
Page 389
Shakspeare uses it very frequently for temper of mind , and in this sense the
vulgar ftill say a good or ill - conditioned man . JOHNSON . So , in K . Henry V . A
& V : “ Our tongue is rough , coz , and my condition is not smooth . ” Ben Jonson
uses ...
Shakspeare uses it very frequently for temper of mind , and in this sense the
vulgar ftill say a good or ill - conditioned man . JOHNSON . So , in K . Henry V . A
& V : “ Our tongue is rough , coz , and my condition is not smooth . ” Ben Jonson
uses ...
Page 466
But the Oxford editor alters it , for better security of the sense , to - taken in the
manor , - i . e . I suppose , by the lord of it , as a stray . WARBURTON . The
expression — taken in the manner , or with the manner , is common to many of
our old ...
But the Oxford editor alters it , for better security of the sense , to - taken in the
manor , - i . e . I suppose , by the lord of it , as a stray . WARBURTON . The
expression — taken in the manner , or with the manner , is common to many of
our old ...
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Page 512 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 112 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 126 - 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 126 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Page 570 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 547 - His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 76 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 280 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 358 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 391 - 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...
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| Title | King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 Volume 8 of The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Contributors | Thomas Longman, E. and S. Harding |
| Publisher | T. Longman ... [and 31 others], 1793 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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