The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 5T. Tegg, 1813 |
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... JOHNSON . JOHNSON . Line 5. For most it caught me , ] It may relate to the whole spectacle . Line 47. -pretence- ] Is , in this place , taken for a scheme laid , a design formed ; to pretend means to design , in the Gent . of Verona ...
... JOHNSON . JOHNSON . Line 5. For most it caught me , ] It may relate to the whole spectacle . Line 47. -pretence- ] Is , in this place , taken for a scheme laid , a design formed ; to pretend means to design , in the Gent . of Verona ...
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... JOHNSON . Line 114. My life stands in the level of your dreams , ] To be in the level is by a metaphor from archery to be within the reach . JOHNSON . Line 135. Starr'd most unluckily , ] i . e . born under an in- auspicious planet ...
... JOHNSON . Line 114. My life stands in the level of your dreams , ] To be in the level is by a metaphor from archery to be within the reach . JOHNSON . Line 135. Starr'd most unluckily , ] i . e . born under an in- auspicious planet ...
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... JOHNSON . -flap - dragoned it : ] i . e . swallowed it . -a bearing - cloth- ] A bearing - cloth is the fine mantle or cloth with which a child is usually covered when it is carried to the church to be baptised . Line 430 . PERCY -some ...
... JOHNSON . -flap - dragoned it : ] i . e . swallowed it . -a bearing - cloth- ] A bearing - cloth is the fine mantle or cloth with which a child is usually covered when it is carried to the church to be baptised . Line 430 . PERCY -some ...
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... JOHNSON . Line 106. -my aunts , ] Aunt appears to have been at this time a cant word for a bawd . Line 109 . name for rich velvet . Line 121 . STEEVENS . wore three pile ; ] three - pile was the old PERCY . With die and drab , I ...
... JOHNSON . Line 106. -my aunts , ] Aunt appears to have been at this time a cant word for a bawd . Line 109 . name for rich velvet . Line 121 . STEEVENS . wore three pile ; ] three - pile was the old PERCY . With die and drab , I ...
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... JOHNSON . extravagance of your praises . Line , 238. The gracious mark o ' the land , ] The object of all men's notice and expectation . Line 243 . -sworn , I think , JOHNSON . To show myself a glass . ] i . e . one would think that in ...
... JOHNSON . extravagance of your praises . Line , 238. The gracious mark o ' the land , ] The object of all men's notice and expectation . Line 243 . -sworn , I think , JOHNSON . To show myself a glass . ] i . e . one would think that in ...
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Page 139 - This guest of summer. The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath, Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coigne of vantage, but this bird hath made His pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they Most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, the air Is delicate.
Page 132 - 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 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. Against the use of nature...
Page 147 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 195 - The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that : you mar all with this starting.
Page 266 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb; I will not. stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly : Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 145 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still; And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Page 140 - He's here in double trust : First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed ; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 199 - Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Doct. Therein the patient Must minister to himself.
Page 135 - 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 141 - Not bear the knife myself. 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.