The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 16R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... present play , which Mr. Pope thought of a different hand , might not be borrowed from the old one . Certainly , however , the general tendency of it must have been very different ; since , as Dr. Johnson observes , there are some ...
... present play , which Mr. Pope thought of a different hand , might not be borrowed from the old one . Certainly , however , the general tendency of it must have been very different ; since , as Dr. Johnson observes , there are some ...
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... present play commences in 1398 ; he died in 1399 , aged 59 . King Henry is represented by Daniel , in his poem of Rosamond , as extremely old when he had a child by that lady . Henry was born at Mentz in 1133 , and died on the 7th July ...
... present play commences in 1398 ; he died in 1399 , aged 59 . King Henry is represented by Daniel , in his poem of Rosamond , as extremely old when he had a child by that lady . Henry was born at Mentz in 1133 , and died on the 7th July ...
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... present drama ) the eldest daughter of Charles the Sixth , then between seven and eight years of age . The contract of marriage was confirmed by the French King in March , 1396 ; and on Novem- ber , 1396 , Richard was married to his ...
... present drama ) the eldest daughter of Charles the Sixth , then between seven and eight years of age . The contract of marriage was confirmed by the French King in March , 1396 ; and on Novem- ber , 1396 , Richard was married to his ...
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... present regulation of the following lines , I would rather read : - " One phial full of Edward's sacred blood " Is crack'd , and all the precious liquor spill'd ; " One flourishing branch of his most royal root " Is hack'd down , and ...
... present regulation of the following lines , I would rather read : - " One phial full of Edward's sacred blood " Is crack'd , and all the precious liquor spill'd ; " One flourishing branch of his most royal root " Is hack'd down , and ...
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... present hour of five , till the bell hath toll'd eleven ! " So also , in Timon of Athens : 66 So the gods bless me , " When all our offices have been oppress'd " With riotous feeders , when our vaults have wept " With drunken spilth of ...
... present hour of five , till the bell hath toll'd eleven ! " So also , in Timon of Athens : 66 So the gods bless me , " When all our offices have been oppress'd " With riotous feeders , when our vaults have wept " With drunken spilth of ...
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Page 147 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 102 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 387 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Page 206 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 111 - God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 291 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.
Page 212 - 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 Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark!— And telling me the sovereign's!
Page 34 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cased up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Page 307 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 100 - No matter where. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.