The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... STEEVENS . Mrs. Lenox observes , and I think not improbably , that the story of Proteus and Julia might be taken from a similar one in the Diana " of George of Montemayor .- " This pastoral romance , ' says she , was translated from the ...
... STEEVENS . Mrs. Lenox observes , and I think not improbably , that the story of Proteus and Julia might be taken from a similar one in the Diana " of George of Montemayor .- " This pastoral romance , ' says she , was translated from the ...
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... STEEVENS . This typographical error was corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . 66 Mr. H. White , in Mr. Steevens's edition of 1803 , quotes a passage from one of Latimer's sermons [ preached at Stamford in 1750 ] to show ...
... STEEVENS . This typographical error was corrected by the editor of the second folio . MALONE . 66 Mr. H. White , in Mr. Steevens's edition of 1803 , quotes a passage from one of Latimer's sermons [ preached at Stamford in 1750 ] to show ...
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... STEEVENS . 6 And mar the concord with too harsh a DESCANT : ] Descant signified formerly what we now denominate variations . So in some ancient poem of which I have neglected to preserve the title : " O what a world of descant makes my ...
... STEEVENS . 6 And mar the concord with too harsh a DESCANT : ] Descant signified formerly what we now denominate variations . So in some ancient poem of which I have neglected to preserve the title : " O what a world of descant makes my ...
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... STEEVENS . The old copy reads " month's , not monthes , " which shew what was intended . Why should we suppose that the line was meant for a verse ? Our author throughout these plays frequently intermixes prose with his verse ; though ...
... STEEVENS . The old copy reads " month's , not monthes , " which shew what was intended . Why should we suppose that the line was meant for a verse ? Our author throughout these plays frequently intermixes prose with his verse ; though ...
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... STEEVENS . The term is still in use at Oxford . Boswell . 4 O , how this spring of love resembleth . ] It was not always the custom among our early writers to make the first and third lines rhime to each other ; and when a word was not ...
... STEEVENS . The term is still in use at Oxford . Boswell . 4 O , how this spring of love resembleth . ] It was not always the custom among our early writers to make the first and third lines rhime to each other ; and when a word was not ...
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 100 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty lives with kindness ? Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling...