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" He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ... - Page 347
by James Boswell - 1822
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The Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian: With the History of the Stage from His ...

1766 - 128 pages
...enough to swim in ! TO MR. QUIN Upon his sending for his spectacles which he had left at Mr. Garrick's. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all. — OlHELLO. From Shakespeare's law there's no appeal To shew what is, what not to steal....
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Troilus and Cressida. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 572 pages
...not me : I slept the next night well, was free, and merry ; 1 found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. lago. I am sorry to hear this. Oth. I had been happy, if the general...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...not me : I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. logo. I am sorry to hear this. Oth. I had been happy, if the general...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...not me: I slept the next night well, was free and merry; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. lago. I am sorry to hear this. So I had nothing known : O now,...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 2

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 450 pages
...regular conclusion, but the mode of expression is suddenly changed at the end of the first line, thus : " He that is. robb'd, not wanting what is stolen— ? " • Let him not know't," &c. La Fontaine has pleasantly expressed the same thought : speaking of female infidelity, he says,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...not me : I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. lago. I am sorry to hear this. Oth. I had been happy, if the general...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...not me : I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. logo. I am sorry to hear this. Oth. I had been happy, if the general...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...This emendation is ingenious and plausible. The same sentiment occurs in Shakespeare's Othello : " He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, " Let him not know it, and he's n<* robb'd at »11." Bentley inserted all his correction^ in the text ; but be frequently...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...not me : I slept the next night well, was free and merry; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. logo. 1 am sorry to hear this. Oth.. I had been happy, if the...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...no right to control the inclinations of his daughters in marriage. Talking of divorces, Mr. Boswell asked if Othello's doctrine was not plausible? " He...is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all." Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale joined against this. —JOHNSON....
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