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1596 , has this passage . “ Behold next I see Contempt marching forth , “ giving mee the fico with his thombe in his mouth . ” In a translation from Stephens's Apology for Herodotus , in 1607 , page 142 , I meet with these words : « It ...
1596 , has this passage . “ Behold next I see Contempt marching forth , “ giving mee the fico with his thombe in his mouth . ” In a translation from Stephens's Apology for Herodotus , in 1607 , page 142 , I meet with these words : « It ...
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4 Give me a torch , ] The character which Romeo declares his resolution to assume , will be best explained by a passage in Weffward Hoe , by Decker and Webster , 1607 : “ like a torch - bearer to makkers ; he wears good cloaths ...
4 Give me a torch , ] The character which Romeo declares his resolution to assume , will be best explained by a passage in Weffward Hoe , by Decker and Webster , 1607 : “ like a torch - bearer to makkers ; he wears good cloaths ...
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In the pictures of burgo - masters , the ring is generally placed on the fore - finger ; and from a passage in The First Part of Hen . IV , we may suppose the citizens in Shakespeare's time to have worn this ornament on the thumb .
In the pictures of burgo - masters , the ring is generally placed on the fore - finger ; and from a passage in The First Part of Hen . IV , we may suppose the citizens in Shakespeare's time to have worn this ornament on the thumb .
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Dr. Warburton has explained the passage with his usual learning ; but I do not think he is so happy in his endeavour to justify Shakespeare from the charge of a vicious repetition in introducing the courtier ...
Dr. Warburton has explained the passage with his usual learning ; but I do not think he is so happy in his endeavour to justify Shakespeare from the charge of a vicious repetition in introducing the courtier ...
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This word trim , the first editors consulting the general sense of the passage , and not perceiving the allusion , wouid naturally alter to true ; yet the former seems the more humourous expreslion , and , on account of its quaintness ...
This word trim , the first editors consulting the general sense of the passage , and not perceiving the allusion , wouid naturally alter to true ; yet the former seems the more humourous expreslion , and , on account of its quaintness ...
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Page 263 - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor ? Ha! have you eyes ? You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment...
Page 212 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 33 - 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, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 225 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 30 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 89 - 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...
Page 468 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 239 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 168 - Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar The friends thou hast and their adoption tried Grapple them...
Page 374 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline: But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
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| Title | Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes Volume 10 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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