The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 7C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... 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.
... 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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... Warburton . By fantastical , he means creatures of fantasy or imagination : the question is , Are these real beings before us , or are we de- ceived by illusions of fancy ? Johnson . So , in Reginald Scott's Discovery of Witchcraft ...
... Warburton . By fantastical , he means creatures of fantasy or imagination : the question is , Are these real beings before us , or are we de- ceived by illusions of fancy ? Johnson . So , in Reginald Scott's Discovery of Witchcraft ...
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... Warburton . A similar expression occurs in As you Like it , Act I , sc . i : 65 nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither . " Steevens . Might fire you with the hope of obtaining the crown . Henley . * Two truths are told , & c ...
... Warburton . A similar expression occurs in As you Like it , Act I , sc . i : 65 nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither . " Steevens . Might fire you with the hope of obtaining the crown . Henley . * Two truths are told , & c ...
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... Warburton . Soliciting is rather , in my opinion , incitement , than information . Johnson suggestion i . e . temptation . So , in All's Well that Ends Well : " A filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl . " Steevens ...
... Warburton . Soliciting is rather , in my opinion , incitement , than information . Johnson suggestion i . e . temptation . So , in All's Well that Ends Well : " A filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl . " Steevens ...
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... Warburton . The words , as they now stand , have exactly the same mean- ing . Such arrangement is sufficiently common among our an- cient writers . Steevens . I do not concur with Dr. Warburton , in thinking that Shak- speare meant to ...
... Warburton . The words , as they now stand , have exactly the same mean- ing . Such arrangement is sufficiently common among our an- cient writers . Steevens . I do not concur with Dr. Warburton , in thinking that Shak- speare meant to ...
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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.