Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes, Volume 6proprietors, 1820 |
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... thee , I am not as this publican . " The pronoun - such , only disorders the measure . Steevens . 8 The counsellor heart , ] The heart was anciently esteemed the seat of prudence . Homo cordatus is a prudent man . Johnson . The heart ...
... thee , I am not as this publican . " The pronoun - such , only disorders the measure . Steevens . 8 The counsellor heart , ] The heart was anciently esteemed the seat of prudence . Homo cordatus is a prudent man . Johnson . The heart ...
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... thee , will flatter Beneath abhorring . - What would you have , you curs , " If we be English deer , be then in blood . ” i . e . high spirits , in vigour . Again , in this play of Coriolanus , Act IV , sc . v : " But when they shall ...
... thee , will flatter Beneath abhorring . - What would you have , you curs , " If we be English deer , be then in blood . ” i . e . high spirits , in vigour . Again , in this play of Coriolanus , Act IV , sc . v : " But when they shall ...
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... thee ; and her great charms Misguide thy opposers ' swords ! Bold gentleman , Prosperity be thy page ! Now the fair goddess , Fortune , 7 Mar. Thy friend no less Than those she placeth highest ! So , farewel . Lart . Thou worthiest ...
... thee ; and her great charms Misguide thy opposers ' swords ! Bold gentleman , Prosperity be thy page ! Now the fair goddess , Fortune , 7 Mar. Thy friend no less Than those she placeth highest ! So , farewel . Lart . Thou worthiest ...
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... thee ; for I do hate thee Worse than a promise - breaker . that he himself may escape the charge of partiality . If this be the drift of Shakspeare , he has expressed it with uncommon ob- scurity . The old translation of Plutarch only ...
... thee ; for I do hate thee Worse than a promise - breaker . that he himself may escape the charge of partiality . If this be the drift of Shakspeare , he has expressed it with uncommon ob- scurity . The old translation of Plutarch only ...
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... thee & c . ] So , in the old translation of Plu- tarch : " There the consul Cominius going up to his chayer of state , in the presence of the whole armie , gaue thankes to the goddes for so great , glorious , and prosperous a victorie ...
... thee & c . ] So , in the old translation of Plu- tarch : " There the consul Cominius going up to his chayer of state , in the presence of the whole armie , gaue thankes to the goddes for so great , glorious , and prosperous a victorie ...
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Alexas ancient Antony Aufidius Char Charmian Cleo Cleopatra Cominius consul Coriolanus Corioli Cymbeline death edition Egypt emendation Enobarbus Enter Eros Exeunt eyes fear fortune friends Fulvia give gods Hanmer hath hear heart honour Iras Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Henry IV lady Lepidus lord Macbeth madam Malone Marcius Mark Antony Mason means Menenius Mess metre modern editors never noble Octavia old copy old reading Othello passage peace play Plutarch Pompey pray Proculeius queen Roman Rome SCENE second folio senate sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sicinius signifies Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Hanmer soldier speak speech Steevens suppose sword tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art thou hast thought Timon of Athens translation of Plutarch tribunes Troilus and Cressida Tyrwhitt unto Volces Warburton word
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Page 187 - NAY, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front...
Page 243 - ... oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 12 - Who deserves greatness, Deserves your hate* and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye 1 With every minute you do change a mind ; And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
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Page 234 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated...
Page 220 - Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow, whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer; thou didst drink The stale of horses and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at; thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on; and all this—...
Page 372 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 227 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 190 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Page 131 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats...