Hamlet. Titus AndronicusPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... editions , flourishing . POPE . 130. Stars shone with trains of fire ; dews of blood fell , & c . ] Thus Mr. Rowe altered these lines , which have no immediate connection with the preceding ones . The quartos read ( for the passage is ...
... editions , flourishing . POPE . 130. Stars shone with trains of fire ; dews of blood fell , & c . ] Thus Mr. Rowe altered these lines , which have no immediate connection with the preceding ones . The quartos read ( for the passage is ...
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... editions read thus , as if the poet's thoughts were , Or that the Almighty had not planted his artillery , or arms ... edition of this play ) is the true reading , i . e . that he had not restrained suicide by his express law and per ...
... editions read thus , as if the poet's thoughts were , Or that the Almighty had not planted his artillery , or arms ... edition of this play ) is the true reading , i . e . that he had not restrained suicide by his express law and per ...
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... editions , STEEVENS . That he permitted not the winds of heaven ] This is a sophistical reading , copied from the players in some of the modern editions , for want of understanding the poet , whose text is corrupt in the old impressions ...
... editions , STEEVENS . That he permitted not the winds of heaven ] This is a sophistical reading , copied from the players in some of the modern editions , for want of understanding the poet , whose text is corrupt in the old impressions ...
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... editions from the old copies , which all read , Are of a most select and generous chef in that . May we suppose that Shakspere borrowed the word chef from heraldry , with which he seems to have been very conversant ? They in France ...
... editions from the old copies , which all read , Are of a most select and generous chef in that . May we suppose that Shakspere borrowed the word chef from heraldry , with which he seems to have been very conversant ? They in France ...
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... edition of this play is in 1604 . The same question occurs also in the MS , known by the title of William and Werwolf , in the Library of King's College , Cambridge , p . 36 . Whether thou be a god , gost in goddis name s that speakest ...
... edition of this play is in 1604 . The same question occurs also in the MS , known by the title of William and Werwolf , in the Library of King's College , Cambridge , p . 36 . Whether thou be a god , gost in goddis name s that speakest ...
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Aaron ancient Bassianus Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Jonson blood brother CHIRON Clown dead dear death deed Demetrius Denmark dost doth editions emperess emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear folio folio reads Fortinbras friends Ghost give Goths grace grief Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Hecuba HENLEY honour Horatio is't JOHNSON Julius Cæsar King Laer Laertes lapwing Lavinia look lord Lucius MALONE Marcus means mother murder never night noble o'er Ophelia Osrick passage play players poison'd Polonius pray Priam prince quartos read Queen revenge Rome ROSENCRANTZ Saturninus SCENE Shakspere shew signifies sons sorrow soul speak speech STEEVENS swear sweet sword Tamora tears tell thee THEOBALD There's thine thing thou hast thought TITUS ANDRONICUS tongue unto villain WARBURTON word
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Page 56 - tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
Page 113 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake.
Page 98 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow ! Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 32 - 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 ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? [Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Page 152 - Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never, Hamlet : If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And, when he's not himself, does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. Who does it then ? His madness : Ift be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 68 - For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course.
Page 113 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought, which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't.
Page 20 - I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
Page 102 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.