The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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Page vii
... fince he bath left upon record a fignal proof how much be defpifed them . In his Play of The Merchant of VENICE a clown is introduced quibbling in a mifer- able manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of fenfe makes the ...
... fince he bath left upon record a fignal proof how much be defpifed them . In his Play of The Merchant of VENICE a clown is introduced quibbling in a mifer- able manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of fenfe makes the ...
Page xxiii
... fince thofe Quarto's , by the actors , or had ftolen from their mouths into the written parts , were from thence conveyed into the printed text , and all stand charged upon the Author . He himself complained of this ufage in Hamlet ...
... fince thofe Quarto's , by the actors , or had ftolen from their mouths into the written parts , were from thence conveyed into the printed text , and all stand charged upon the Author . He himself complained of this ufage in Hamlet ...
Page xxiv
... fince to be found in the folio . In the next place , a number of beautiful paffages which are extant in the first fingle editions , are omit- ted in this as it feems , without any other reason , than their willingness to shorten some ...
... fince to be found in the folio . In the next place , a number of beautiful paffages which are extant in the first fingle editions , are omit- ted in this as it feems , without any other reason , than their willingness to shorten some ...
Page xxxii
... fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was a Knight of the garter , and a Lieutenant general , was a name of diftinguifh'd merit in the wars in France in Henry the fifth's and Henry the fixth's times . What grace foever the ...
... fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , who was a Knight of the garter , and a Lieutenant general , was a name of diftinguifh'd merit in the wars in France in Henry the fifth's and Henry the fixth's times . What grace foever the ...
Page xxxiv
... fince he could not know what might be faid of him when he was dead , he defir'd it might be done immediately : Upon which Shakespear gave him these four verfes . Ten in the hundred lyes here ingrav'd , ' Tis a hundred to ten his foul is ...
... fince he could not know what might be faid of him when he was dead , he defir'd it might be done immediately : Upon which Shakespear gave him these four verfes . Ten in the hundred lyes here ingrav'd , ' Tis a hundred to ten his foul is ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...