The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... , there to be seene graven with the armes of the Danes " Inch , or Inshe , in the Irish and Erse languages , signifies an island . See Lhuyd's Archeo- logia . Steevens . Dun . No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive 24 MACBETH .
... , there to be seene graven with the armes of the Danes " Inch , or Inshe , in the Irish and Erse languages , signifies an island . See Lhuyd's Archeo- logia . Steevens . Dun . No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive 24 MACBETH .
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... signifies an unhappy one . " Steevens . It may be added that " bitten and Verbieten , in the German , signify to pray and to interdict . " S. W. 6 Shall be dwindle , & c . ] This mischief was supposed to be put in execution by means of ...
... signifies an unhappy one . " Steevens . It may be added that " bitten and Verbieten , in the German , signify to pray and to interdict . " S. W. 6 Shall be dwindle , & c . ] This mischief was supposed to be put in execution by means of ...
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... from that time to this . Warburton . Weird comes from the Anglo - Saxon pind , fatum , and is used as a substantive signifying a prophecy , by the translator of Hector · sú ms . Enter MACBETH and BANQUO . Macb . MACBETH . 31.
... from that time to this . Warburton . Weird comes from the Anglo - Saxon pind , fatum , and is used as a substantive signifying a prophecy , by the translator of Hector · sú ms . Enter MACBETH and BANQUO . Macb . MACBETH . 31.
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... modern , of later erection . Steevens . 66 7 Are ye fantastical , ] By fantastical is not meant , according to the common signification , creatures of his own brain ; for he Which outwardly ye show ? My noble partner You greet 34 MACBETH .
... modern , of later erection . Steevens . 66 7 Are ye fantastical , ] By fantastical is not meant , according to the common signification , creatures of his own brain ; for he Which outwardly ye show ? My noble partner You greet 34 MACBETH .
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... signified as fast . To speak thick , in our author , does not therefore mean , to have a cloudy indistinct utterance , but to deliver words with rapidity . So , in Cymbeline , Act III , sc . ii : say , and speak thick , 66 " ( Love's ...
... signified as fast . To speak thick , in our author , does not therefore mean , to have a cloudy indistinct utterance , but to deliver words with rapidity . So , in Cymbeline , Act III , sc . ii : say , and speak thick , 66 " ( Love's ...
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ancient Arthur Banquo Bast Bastard believe Ben Jonson blood breath called castle Cawdor Const Coriolanus crown Cymbeline Dauphin death deed doth Duncan edit emendation England Enter Exeunt expression eyes father Faulconbridge fear folio France give hand hast hath heart heaven Hecate Henry VI Holinshed honour Hubert Iliad Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Henry IV King John King Richard Kyng Lady Macbeth lord Macb Macd Macduff Malcolm Malone Mason means murder nature night noble observed old copy old play old reading peace perhaps poet Pope present prince Queen Rape of Lucrece Rosse sayd says scene Scotland seems sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies sleep speak speech spirit Steevens suppose Tale thane thee Theobald thine things thou art thought tragedy unto Warburton weird sisters Winter's Tale Witch word
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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.