Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier ... |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 89
Page xxvi
... true : I have read and studied our great dramatist for nearly half a century , and if I could read and study him for half a century more , I should yet be far from arriving at an accurate know- ledge of his works , or an adequate ...
... true : I have read and studied our great dramatist for nearly half a century , and if I could read and study him for half a century more , I should yet be far from arriving at an accurate know- ledge of his works , or an adequate ...
Page 4
... true language of Shakespeare ; and , by an insignificant transposition , what has always been a stumbling - block to commentators is now satisfactorily removed . P. 16. The ordinary reading has been this : - " Whereon , A treacherous ...
... true language of Shakespeare ; and , by an insignificant transposition , what has always been a stumbling - block to commentators is now satisfactorily removed . P. 16. The ordinary reading has been this : - " Whereon , A treacherous ...
Page 10
... true reading seems to be " she for whom , " or on account of whom ; and this correction is made in the margin of the folio , 1632. In the third line of the next speech by Antonio , " Measure us back to Naples , " ought , on the same ...
... true reading seems to be " she for whom , " or on account of whom ; and this correction is made in the margin of the folio , 1632. In the third line of the next speech by Antonio , " Measure us back to Naples , " ought , on the same ...
Page 15
... true reading being , - 66 My true preserver and a loyal servant To him thou follow'st . " P. 78. Prospero , in the words of the manuscript stage- direction , being Attired as duke of Milan , presents himself before his astonished ...
... true reading being , - 66 My true preserver and a loyal servant To him thou follow'st . " P. 78. Prospero , in the words of the manuscript stage- direction , being Attired as duke of Milan , presents himself before his astonished ...
Page 17
... true ; for you are over boots in love ; " but the manuscript - corrector of the folio , 1632 , has changed it to " ' Tis true ; but you are over boots in love ; " which seems more consistent with the course of the dia- logue ; for ...
... true ; for you are over boots in love ; " but the manuscript - corrector of the folio , 1632 , has changed it to " ' Tis true ; but you are over boots in love ; " which seems more consistent with the course of the dia- logue ; for ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according afterwards altered amended Antony appears authority blunder Brutus Cæsar Cleopatra compositor conjecture copyist Coriolanus corrected folio corruption couplet defective doubt Duke editors emendation Enter epithet erased error evident exclaims eyes Falstaff father give given Hamlet hath heaven hemistich Henry Iachimo Iago Imogen impressions inserted instance Italic type Johnson Julius Cæsar King Lady last line letter lines lower lord Macbeth Malone manu manuscript stage-direction manuscript-corrector margin meaning merely misheard misprint mistake modern editions necessary never observes occurs old copies old corrector omitted Othello passage perhaps play poet Prince printed copies printer probably proposed quartos and folios Queen remarks restored rhyme says SCENE I.
P. SCENE II scribe second folio second line seems sense sentence set right Shakespeare speaking speech spelt stage stands Steevens strange struck subsequent substituted supposed syllables tells thee Theobald thou tion verse Warburton written
Popular passages
Page 422 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 129 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 101 - The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 410 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 441 - Behold yond simpering dame, whose face between her forks presages snow, that minces virtue, and does shake the head to hear of pleasure's name: the fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiends'.
Page 91 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Page 257 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 2 - With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Page 444 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Page 399 - You say, you are a better soldier : Let it appear so ; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well : For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way ; you wrong me, Brutus; I said an elder soldier, not a better : Did I say better ? Bru.