Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks Upon the Explanations and Amendments of the Commentators in the Editions of 1785, 1790, 1793W. Bulmer and Company, 1805 - 375 pages |
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... sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours ; Most busy - less , when I do it . I think Mr. Malone's first explanation is the right one . I cannot see that and or for would be more proper than but P. 74. 57. ( Vide Appendix , p . 549 ) ...
... sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours ; Most busy - less , when I do it . I think Mr. Malone's first explanation is the right one . I cannot see that and or for would be more proper than but P. 74. 57. ( Vide Appendix , p . 549 ) ...
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... sweet mouth . Laun . That makes amends for her sour breath . I cannot think that she has a sweet mouth means she sings sweetly . Dr. Johnson's explanation seems to me right . Speed is now got to the catalogue of vices , and a sweet ...
... sweet mouth . Laun . That makes amends for her sour breath . I cannot think that she has a sweet mouth means she sings sweetly . Dr. Johnson's explanation seems to me right . Speed is now got to the catalogue of vices , and a sweet ...
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... sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven , and my heaven's claim . I do not understand my heaven's claim , but suppose Dr. Johnson's explanation may be right . " Ibid . Luc . All this my sister is , or else should be . Ant . S. Call ...
... sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven , and my heaven's claim . I do not understand my heaven's claim , but suppose Dr. Johnson's explanation may be right . " Ibid . Luc . All this my sister is , or else should be . Ant . S. Call ...
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... Sweet recreation barr'd , what doth ensue , But moody and dull melancholy , ( Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair ; ) And , at her heels , a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures , and foes to life ? I think with the Author ...
... Sweet recreation barr'd , what doth ensue , But moody and dull melancholy , ( Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair ; ) And , at her heels , a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures , and foes to life ? I think with the Author ...
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... sweet Beatrice . Beat . I am gone , though I am here . Is not the meaning rather , my thoughts are absent though my person is present . P. 358. - 279. - 513 . Scene II . I am for admitting Mr. Tyrwhitt's regulation , which appears to me ...
... sweet Beatrice . Beat . I am gone , though I am here . Is not the meaning rather , my thoughts are absent though my person is present . P. 358. - 279. - 513 . Scene II . I am for admitting Mr. Tyrwhitt's regulation , which appears to me ...
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Page 110 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
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Page 328 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 278 - For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Page 343 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
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Page 204 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 132 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 332 - 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.