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Common terms and phrasesabsurdity alteration annotations appears Ariel aster Bellario Ben Johnson Bertram besore Biron Bishop of Gloucester Canons of Criticism cloaths commentators common reading conceive corrupt Diana doth duke edition editor hath emendation expression faid Falstaff farcastically fatire fays Dr gentleman give a name holy honour hyad hyæna hyen Ifabel impropriety impute ingenious intended Johnson fays Johnson hath king know nought lace laugh learned least lise lord Love's Labour lost Lucio manner MEASURE FOR MEASURE merit midnight bell Midsummer Night's Dream never nonsense notwithstanding oaths observed occasion opinion passage phrase piercing plain play poet Portia preface present editor princely propriety quoted racter reader reason reserence Revifal scene scholiast seems sense Shakespeare shew signify Sir Thomas Hanmer sirst speaks speech suppose tells thee Theobald theresore thing thou art tion true truth vileness Warburton fays Warburton's note word writer Popular passagesPage 72 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Page 13 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Page 99 - ... of the old reading; then by proposing something, which to superficial readers would seem specious, but which the editor rejects with... Page i - A Review of Dr. Johnson's new edition of Shakespeare; in which the Ignorance or Inattention of that Editor is exposed, and the Poet defended from the Persecution of his Commentators, Page 99 - I could have written longer notes, for the art of writing notes is not of difficult attainment. The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity... Page 112 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown... Page 57 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not fo unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not fo keen, Becaufe thou art not feen, Altho Page xv - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt, which I have not attempted to restore; or obscure, which I have not endeavoured to illustrate. Page 43 - FOR SEEMLY BEHAVIOUR. First come, first serve.— Then come not late •, And, when arrived, keep your state ; For he, who from these rules shall swerve, Must pay the forfeits.— So, observe. Page 108 - ... to any end. It is said of a woman, who accepts a worse match than those which she had refused, that ' she has passed through the wood, and at last taken a crooked stick. Bibliographic information
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