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Page 187
As to offend , himself being offended ; So Shakspeare seems to have taken from
J . C . Scaliger ' s Erot . Exercit . against Cardan . A book that our author was well
read in , and much indebted to for a great deal of his physics , it being then ...
As to offend , himself being offended ; So Shakspeare seems to have taken from
J . C . Scaliger ' s Erot . Exercit . against Cardan . A book that our author was well
read in , and much indebted to for a great deal of his physics , it being then ...
Page 233
Come , ho , and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your
mistress ' ear , And Shakspeare is not always exact in his language - he
confounds it with that external and artificial harmony which is capable of being
heard .
Come , ho , and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your
mistress ' ear , And Shakspeare is not always exact in his language - he
confounds it with that external and artificial harmony which is capable of being
heard .
Page 295
It would , indeed , be absurd to think , that this Ballad was taken from Shakspeare
' s play , as they differ in the most essential circumstances . The sum borrowed is
in the latter three thousand ducats , in the former an hundred crowns : The time ...
It would , indeed , be absurd to think , that this Ballad was taken from Shakspeare
' s play , as they differ in the most essential circumstances . The sum borrowed is
in the latter three thousand ducats , in the former an hundred crowns : The time ...
Page 311
That Shakspeare had his plot from the novel itself , is evident from his having
some incidents from it , which are not found in the Ballad : And I think it will also
be found that he borowed from the ballad some hints , that were not suggested by
the ...
That Shakspeare had his plot from the novel itself , is evident from his having
some incidents from it , which are not found in the Ballad : And I think it will also
be found that he borowed from the ballad some hints , that were not suggested by
the ...
Page 312
It is therefore not improbable that Shakspeare new - wrote his piece , on the
model already mentioned , and that the elder performance , being inferior , was
permitted to drop silently into oblivion . This play of Shakspeare had been
exhibited ...
It is therefore not improbable that Shakspeare new - wrote his piece , on the
model already mentioned , and that the elder performance , being inferior , was
permitted to drop silently into oblivion . This play of Shakspeare had been
exhibited ...
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Page 14 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 32 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 10 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 230 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 235 - Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music : Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature...
Page 144 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 204 - It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 238 - So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king. Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters.
Page 32 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 225 - In such a night, Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew : And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, As far as Belmont. Jes. And in such a night...
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| Title | The comedies of The Merchant of Venice, and As you like it, with the notes and illustr. of various commentators and remarks by the editor [A. Eccles] in two volumes |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Ambrose Eccles |
| Published | 1805 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2007 |
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