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Page 42
Johnson . 6 The enterprize - ] Perhaps we should read ' : Then enterprize is sick !
Johnson . - brotherhoods in cities , ] Corporations , companies , confraternities .
Johnson . dividable shores , ] i . e . divided . So , in Antony and Cleopatra , our ...
Johnson . 6 The enterprize - ] Perhaps we should read ' : Then enterprize is sick !
Johnson . - brotherhoods in cities , ] Corporations , companies , confraternities .
Johnson . dividable shores , ] i . e . divided . So , in Antony and Cleopatra , our ...
Page 50
Johnson . Here we have another proof of Shakspeare's falling into
inconsistencies , by sometimes adhering to , and sometimes deserting , his
original : a point , on which some stress has been laid in the Dissertation printed
at the end of The ...
Johnson . Here we have another proof of Shakspeare's falling into
inconsistencies , by sometimes adhering to , and sometimes deserting , his
original : a point , on which some stress has been laid in the Dissertation printed
at the end of The ...
Page 67
Johnson . 5 Without some image of the affected merit . ] We should read : the
affected's merit . i . e . without some mark of merit in the thing affected . Warburton
. The present reading is right . The will affects an object for some supposed merit
...
Johnson . 5 Without some image of the affected merit . ] We should read : the
affected's merit . i . e . without some mark of merit in the thing affected . Warburton
. The present reading is right . The will affects an object for some supposed merit
...
Page 102
I think the passage corrupt ; but I cannot agree with the alteration proposed by Dr.
Johnson . I would read But you are wise , And therefore love not ; --for to be wise ,
and love , Exceeds man's might , & c . Cressida intimates the violence of her ...
I think the passage corrupt ; but I cannot agree with the alteration proposed by Dr.
Johnson . I would read But you are wise , And therefore love not ; --for to be wise ,
and love , Exceeds man's might , & c . Cressida intimates the violence of her ...
Page 108
... The word is so printed that nothing but the sense can determine whether it be
love or Fove . I believe that the editors read it as love , and therefore made the
alteration to obtain some meaning . Johnson . I do not perceive why love , the
clear ...
... The word is so printed that nothing but the sense can determine whether it be
love or Fove . I believe that the editors read it as love , and therefore made the
alteration to obtain some meaning . Johnson . I do not perceive why love , the
clear ...
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Page 42 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 238 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Page 255 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 318 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 261 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 207 - Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do. with their death, bury their parents
Page 119 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 261 - Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest Come to thy heart as that within my breast!
Page 118 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 240 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 12 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad, 1809 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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