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This prologue , after the first copy was published in 1597 , received several
alterations , both in respect of correctness and versification . In the folio it is
omitted . The play was originally performed by the Right Hon . the Lord of
Hunsdon his ...
This prologue , after the first copy was published in 1597 , received several
alterations , both in respect of correctness and versification . In the folio it is
omitted . The play was originally performed by the Right Hon . the Lord of
Hunsdon his ...
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I have no doubt that the old copies are right . ... of wealth ( which the poet has
already said was the fairness of her person , 7 will not be transmitted to posterity ,
inasmuch as she will “ lead her graces to the grave , and leave the world no copy
.
I have no doubt that the old copies are right . ... of wealth ( which the poet has
already said was the fairness of her person , 7 will not be transmitted to posterity ,
inasmuch as she will “ lead her graces to the grave , and leave the world no copy
.
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It is no less singular that in a subsequent act of this very play the old copies
should , in two places , read “ young trees ” and “ young tree , " instead of yew -
trees , and yew - tree . Ritson . The following passages from Chaucer ' s Romaunt
of ...
It is no less singular that in a subsequent act of this very play the old copies
should , in two places , read “ young trees ” and “ young tree , " instead of yew -
trees , and yew - tree . Ritson . The following passages from Chaucer ' s Romaunt
of ...
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Rom . Indeed , I should have asked you that. 6 To supper ; to our house . ] The
words to supper are in the old copies annexed to the preceding speech . They
undoubtedly belong to the Servant , to whom they were transferred by Mr .
Theobald .
Rom . Indeed , I should have asked you that. 6 To supper ; to our house . ] The
words to supper are in the old copies annexed to the preceding speech . They
undoubtedly belong to the Servant , to whom they were transferred by Mr .
Theobald .
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8 — in those crystal scales , ] The old copies have — that crystal , & c . The
emendation was made by Mr . Rowe . I am not sure that it is necessary . The poet
might have used scales for the entire machine . Malone . 9 - let there be weigh ' d
...
8 — in those crystal scales , ] The old copies have — that crystal , & c . The
emendation was made by Mr . Rowe . I am not sure that it is necessary . The poet
might have used scales for the entire machine . Malone . 9 - let there be weigh ' d
...
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Page 380 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 52 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers And in this state she gallops night...
Page 66 - Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this ; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers
Page 242 - O ! here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 77 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 84 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Page 78 - O ! speak again, bright angel ; for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 161 - 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, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 56 - 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...
Page 409 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school ; and then the lover, • Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
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| Title | The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 6 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare Volume 6 of The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | James Boswell |
| Illustrated by | Edmond Malone |
| Publisher | R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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