Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 1J. Wright, 1805 |
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... once , uses the same licence . " Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord . " Paradise Lost . B. 12 . " For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd . " The poet was very good to make a christian of Theseus . 324. " I must employ you in some ...
... once , uses the same licence . " Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord . " Paradise Lost . B. 12 . " For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd . " The poet was very good to make a christian of Theseus . 324. " I must employ you in some ...
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... once wished to read , instead of " the forms , ' a mass of things , " but I am much better . pleased with the preceding explanation . The form of things unknown is the idea of " the un- licked bear - cub that carries no impression like ...
... once wished to read , instead of " the forms , ' a mass of things , " but I am much better . pleased with the preceding explanation . The form of things unknown is the idea of " the un- licked bear - cub that carries no impression like ...
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... once upon the busi- ness with her.Thus Polonius , resolving to accost Hamlet without ceremony , says , 66 I'll board him presently . " 252. It is dry . " We may discover what Maria's idea of a dry hand is , by Othello's remark upon a ...
... once upon the busi- ness with her.Thus Polonius , resolving to accost Hamlet without ceremony , says , 66 I'll board him presently . " 252. It is dry . " We may discover what Maria's idea of a dry hand is , by Othello's remark upon a ...
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... once , exuberant and ungram- matical . We might read : " Guilter than he they try ; what's ope to justice . " The bad grammar , which Mr. Steevens seems not to have been aware of , proceeds from an in- attention to an implied ellipsis ...
... once , exuberant and ungram- matical . We might read : " Guilter than he they try ; what's ope to justice . " The bad grammar , which Mr. Steevens seems not to have been aware of , proceeds from an in- attention to an implied ellipsis ...
Page 105
... serious parts of this play appears rather a harsh one : Mr. Harris , the author of Hermes , once spoke of it to me as a great favourite of his . LORD CHED WORTH . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . ACT I. SCENE I. 5. " MEASURE FOR MEASURE . 105.
... serious parts of this play appears rather a harsh one : Mr. Harris , the author of Hermes , once spoke of it to me as a great favourite of his . LORD CHED WORTH . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . ACT I. SCENE I. 5. " MEASURE FOR MEASURE . 105.
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Page 188 - 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 188 - 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...
Page 346 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 24 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 44 - Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries ; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which : And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension: We are their parents and original.
Page 357 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 56 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 188 - 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 409 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.