The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others, Volume 3 |
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There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby , that will never please . ...
shield us ! a lion among ladies , is a most dreadful thing : for there is not a more
fearful wild - fowl than your lion , living ; and we ought to look to it . Snout .
There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby , that will never please . ...
shield us ! a lion among ladies , is a most dreadful thing : for there is not a more
fearful wild - fowl than your lion , living ; and we ought to look to it . Snout .
Page 61
These things seem small , and undistinguishable , Like far - off mountains turned
into clouds . Her . Methinks , I see these things with parted eye , When every thing
seems double . Hel . So methinks : And I have found Demetrius like a jewel ...
These things seem small , and undistinguishable , Like far - off mountains turned
into clouds . Her . Methinks , I see these things with parted eye , When every thing
seems double . Hel . So methinks : And I have found Demetrius like a jewel ...
Page 162
Than wish a snow in May's new - fangled shows ; s But like of each thing , that in
season grows . So you , to study now it is too late , Climb o'er the house t'unlock
the little gate . King . Well , sit you out : go home , Biron ; adieu ! Biron . No , my ...
Than wish a snow in May's new - fangled shows ; s But like of each thing , that in
season grows . So you , to study now it is too late , Climb o'er the house t'unlock
the little gate . King . Well , sit you out : go home , Biron ; adieu ! Biron . No , my ...
Page 182
( 6 ) Incony or kony in the north , signities , fide , delicate - as a kony thing , a fine
thing . WARBUR'TON . There is no such expression in the North as either kony or
incony . The word canny , which the people there use , and from which Dr.
( 6 ) Incony or kony in the north , signities , fide , delicate - as a kony thing , a fine
thing . WARBUR'TON . There is no such expression in the North as either kony or
incony . The word canny , which the people there use , and from which Dr.
Page 274
Ay , when the special thing is well obtain'd , This is , -her love ; for that is all in all .
Pet . Why , that is nothing ; for I tell you , father , ' I am as peremptory as she proud
- minded ; And where two raging fires meet together , They do consume the ...
Ay , when the special thing is well obtain'd , This is , -her love ; for that is all in all .
Pet . Why , that is nothing ; for I tell you , father , ' I am as peremptory as she proud
- minded ; And where two raging fires meet together , They do consume the ...
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Page 61 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 63 - Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; 20 Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear!
Page 28 - Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Page 61 - I had — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart...
Page 173 - Is my report to his great worthiness. Ros. Another of these students at that time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 236 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 63 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.
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| Title | The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others, Volume 3 The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | H. Durell, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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