Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 2J. Wright, 1805 |
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... doth bear me hard ; but he loves Brutus : " If I were Brutus now , and he were Cassius , " He should not humour me . ” Cassius is a selfish moralist ; he would not be tempted to betray his friend , though he advises Brutus to do so ...
... doth bear me hard ; but he loves Brutus : " If I were Brutus now , and he were Cassius , " He should not humour me . ” Cassius is a selfish moralist ; he would not be tempted to betray his friend , though he advises Brutus to do so ...
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... doth not wrong but with just cause . " I wish that Mr. Tyrwhitt , who undertook to defend this expression , as it is supposed origi- nally to have stood , had favoured us with an ex- ample , in any other English author , of " wrong's ...
... doth not wrong but with just cause . " I wish that Mr. Tyrwhitt , who undertook to defend this expression , as it is supposed origi- nally to have stood , had favoured us with an ex- ample , in any other English author , of " wrong's ...
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... doth loudly call upon friend Amner to signify unto that gentleman's erratic imagination the plain road of the poet's meaning . -It was of little consequence whether Octavia's voice was said to be high or low , Cleopatra would be sure to ...
... doth loudly call upon friend Amner to signify unto that gentleman's erratic imagination the plain road of the poet's meaning . -It was of little consequence whether Octavia's voice was said to be high or low , Cleopatra would be sure to ...
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... doth melt : My lord . " A word is wanting : I suppose it was " melt away . " " O wither'd is the garland of the war . " Lee has imitated this in Theodosius : 66 O you have given " A blight to the big blossom of the war . " " The ...
... doth melt : My lord . " A word is wanting : I suppose it was " melt away . " " O wither'd is the garland of the war . " Lee has imitated this in Theodosius : 66 O you have given " A blight to the big blossom of the war . " " The ...
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... doth with merit challenge . " ( c And regulate the metre thus : " Where nature doth with merit challenge it . Goneril , our eldest born , speak first . " Sir , I 66 " Do love , " & c . Again , in the following line , the exuberance what ...
... doth with merit challenge . " ( c And regulate the metre thus : " Where nature doth with merit challenge it . Goneril , our eldest born , speak first . " Sir , I 66 " Do love , " & c . Again , in the following line , the exuberance what ...
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Antony Apemantus appears believe beseech better Brutus CAPEL LOFFT Cassio Coriolanus correction corruption Cymbeline death Desd Desdemona disorder do't dost doth ejected ellipsis emendation Emil expression eyes fair false fear folio give Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven hemistic Henry Henry IV honour hypermeter Iago Iago's implied interpolation Johnson Juliet Julius Cæsar Kent king King Lear knave lady Lear LORD CHEDWORTH lost Macbeth madam Malone Mark Antony meaning measure metre nature ne'er never occurs omitted Othello passage perhaps play poet Posthumus pray PRINCE OF TYRE propose quarto reads queen regulate remark Romeo says SCENE SCENE II seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose swear syllable thee thing thou thought Timon tion true Tybalt useless verb verse villain wanting Warburton's words
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Page 123 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Page 141 - King. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green ; and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe; Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature, That we with wisest sorrow think on him, Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Page 170 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 392 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 23 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth: As which of you shall not? With this I depart: That, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 292 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Page 383 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 179 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 382 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 197 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...