The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... hear of such terrible cross blows given and rece ved but by giants and miscreants in Amadis de Gaule . Besides , it must be a strange aukward stroke that could unrip him upwards from the navel to the chops . But Shakspeare certainly ...
... hear of such terrible cross blows given and rece ved but by giants and miscreants in Amadis de Gaule . Besides , it must be a strange aukward stroke that could unrip him upwards from the navel to the chops . But Shakspeare certainly ...
Page 81
... hear how things go , and , I warrant , to your own content . ” The meaning then of the present difficult passage , thus cor- rected , will be : If you will closely adhere to my cause , if you will promote , as far as you can , what is ...
... hear how things go , and , I warrant , to your own content . ” The meaning then of the present difficult passage , thus cor- rected , will be : If you will closely adhere to my cause , if you will promote , as far as you can , what is ...
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... adjusted , he wishes , with great , propriety , in the following lines , that the earth may not bear bis Props . Johnson , YOL VII ,器 11 . siems . Hear not my steps , which MACBETH . Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, ...
... adjusted , he wishes , with great , propriety , in the following lines , that the earth may not bear bis Props . Johnson , YOL VII ,器 11 . siems . Hear not my steps , which MACBETH . Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, ...
Page 86
... Hear not my steps , which way they walk , for fear . I cannot agree with Dr. Johnson that a stride is always an action of violence , impetuosity , or tumult . Spenser uses the word in his Fairy Queen , B. IV , c . viii , and with no ...
... Hear not my steps , which way they walk , for fear . I cannot agree with Dr. Johnson that a stride is always an action of violence , impetuosity , or tumult . Spenser uses the word in his Fairy Queen , B. IV , c . viii , and with no ...
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... hear , " show , that he had the same idea of the awfulness of silence as our poet , Malone . ? Whiles I threat ; be lives ; Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives . ] . Here is evidently a false concord ; but it must not be ...
... hear , " show , that he had the same idea of the awfulness of silence as our poet , Malone . ? Whiles I threat ; be lives ; Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives . ] . Here is evidently a false concord ; but it must not be ...
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Page 16 - What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.
Page 379 - 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 85 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 102 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 240 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 386 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 42 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 149 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a thought...
Page 70 - 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.