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... a tyrant : when I have fought with the men , I will be 3 cruel with the maids ; I will cut off their heads . " He but as he has given no instances in support of his declaration , I thought it necessary to subjoin the following : Nah ...
... a tyrant : when I have fought with the men , I will be 3 cruel with the maids ; I will cut off their heads . " He but as he has given no instances in support of his declaration , I thought it necessary to subjoin the following : Nah ...
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So again in this play : Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night , Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear . WARBURTON . But why nonsense ? Is any thing more commonly said , than that beauties eclipfe the fun ? Has not Pope the thought and ...
So again in this play : Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night , Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear . WARBURTON . But why nonsense ? Is any thing more commonly said , than that beauties eclipfe the fun ? Has not Pope the thought and ...
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The same thought occurs in Albumazar , in the following lines : “ Help , Armsliina , help ! I'm fall'n i ' the cellar : “ Bring a fresh plantain leaf , I've broke my thin . " The plantain leaf is a blood - fauncher , and was formerly ...
The same thought occurs in Albumazar , in the following lines : “ Help , Armsliina , help ! I'm fall'n i ' the cellar : “ Bring a fresh plantain leaf , I've broke my thin . " The plantain leaf is a blood - fauncher , and was formerly ...
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The thought of which , and of the preceding , is taken from gaming . I'll be a candle - bolder ( says Romeo ) and look on . It is true , if I could play myself , I could never expect a fairer chance than in the company we are going to ...
The thought of which , and of the preceding , is taken from gaming . I'll be a candle - bolder ( says Romeo ) and look on . It is true , if I could play myself , I could never expect a fairer chance than in the company we are going to ...
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Queen Mab's bufiness is to inspire people with thoughts , to impregnate them with fancies , and not to deliver them of such thoughts oga fancies as they have already conceived . There is no reason then for making her the fancy's midwife ...
Queen Mab's bufiness is to inspire people with thoughts , to impregnate them with fancies , and not to deliver them of such thoughts oga fancies as they have already conceived . There is no reason then for making her the fancy's midwife ...
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Ĉmil affection againſt ancient appears bear believe better called cauſe character Clown comes common copies dead dear death doth edition Enter Exit eyes fair fall father fear firſt folio foul give given Hamlet hand hath head hear heart heaven himſelf hold Iago JOHNSON keep kind king lady lago leave light lines live look lord married matter means mind moſt muſt nature never night Nurſe obſerved once Othello paſſage perhaps play poet pray preſent quarto Queen reaſon Romeo ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſenſe Shakeſpeare ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſtand STEEVENS ſuch ſuppoſe ſweet tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought true uſed WARBURTON whoſe wife young
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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...
Bibliographic information
| 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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