Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes, Volume 1proprietors, 1820 |
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... believe that the words be naught awhile , mean no more than this : " Be content to be a cypher , till I shall think fit to elevate you into consequence . " This was certainly a proverbial saying . I find it in The Storie of King Darius ...
... believe that the words be naught awhile , mean no more than this : " Be content to be a cypher , till I shall think fit to elevate you into consequence . " This was certainly a proverbial saying . I find it in The Storie of King Darius ...
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... believe the whole conceit is in the poor resemblance of presence and presents . Johnson . With bills on their necks , should be the conclusion of Le Beau's speech . Mr. Edwards ridicules Dr. Warburton , " As if people carried such ...
... believe the whole conceit is in the poor resemblance of presence and presents . Johnson . With bills on their necks , should be the conclusion of Le Beau's speech . Mr. Edwards ridicules Dr. Warburton , " As if people carried such ...
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... believe , means , turned out of her service , and stripped of her livery . Steevens . So afterwards , Celia says , " but turning these jests out of service , let us talk in good earnest . " Malone . 9 Is but a quintain , a mere lifeless ...
... believe , means , turned out of her service , and stripped of her livery . Steevens . So afterwards , Celia says , " but turning these jests out of service , let us talk in good earnest . " Malone . 9 Is but a quintain , a mere lifeless ...
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... believe we should read - brother's . For when the Duke says in the following words : " Fetch that gallant hither ; " he certainly means Orlando . M. Mason . 8 • quail — ] To quail is to faint , to sink into dejection . So , in Cymbeline ...
... believe we should read - brother's . For when the Duke says in the following words : " Fetch that gallant hither ; " he certainly means Orlando . M. Mason . 8 • quail — ] To quail is to faint , to sink into dejection . So , in Cymbeline ...
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... believe , however , bony to be the true reading . Malone . 3 to some kind of men - ] Old copy - seeme kind . Correct- ed by the editor of the second folio . Malone . The enemy of all your graces lives : Your brother- AS YOU LIKE IT . 39.
... believe , however , bony to be the true reading . Malone . 3 to some kind of men - ] Old copy - seeme kind . Correct- ed by the editor of the second folio . Malone . The enemy of all your graces lives : Your brother- AS YOU LIKE IT . 39.
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Page 33 - 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 60 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes , And whistles in his sound.
Page 211 - They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 41 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 59 - With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 66 - Truly, Shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vild life. Now, in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the Court, it is tedious.