New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Volume 2; Volume 144K. Paul, Trench, 1881 |
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... omitted , on the supposition of having been already written or printed , when in fact it had not . Ely . But what prevention ? Cant . The king is full of grace , and fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy Church . Cant . The ...
... omitted , on the supposition of having been already written or printed , when in fact it had not . Ely . But what prevention ? Cant . The king is full of grace , and fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy Church . Cant . The ...
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... omitted ' that ' altogether , in order to reduce the line to metrical regularity - wrongly , I think , because ' garter ' is a monosyllabic word pronounced ' gartr . ' But there is at least one error unnoticed in the passage , which ...
... omitted ' that ' altogether , in order to reduce the line to metrical regularity - wrongly , I think , because ' garter ' is a monosyllabic word pronounced ' gartr . ' But there is at least one error unnoticed in the passage , which ...
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... omitted ' and seat , ' but ' seat ' natur- ally accompanies ' crown ' in the sense of ' throne . ' SCENE 2 . K. Hen . Therefore take heed how you impawn our person , How you awake the sleeping sword of war . Johnson would read for ' our ...
... omitted ' and seat , ' but ' seat ' natur- ally accompanies ' crown ' in the sense of ' throne . ' SCENE 2 . K. Hen . Therefore take heed how you impawn our person , How you awake the sleeping sword of war . Johnson would read for ' our ...
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... omitted the Latin line altogether . The motive for this , I apprehend , must have been his inability to reduce the line to the proper number of feet . Cant . Yet their own authors faithfully affirm , That the land Salique lies in ...
... omitted the Latin line altogether . The motive for this , I apprehend , must have been his inability to reduce the line to the proper number of feet . Cant . Yet their own authors faithfully affirm , That the land Salique lies in ...
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... omitted ' yet , ' but it is an efficient particle here . Delius says that ' stretch , ' although properly applicable only to the nerves of sight , is here applied to the eye itself . I think that ' stretch eye ' means , in part at least ...
... omitted ' yet , ' but it is an efficient particle here . Delius says that ' stretch , ' although properly applicable only to the nerves of sight , is here applied to the eye itself . I think that ' stretch eye ' means , in part at least ...
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Page 3 - Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 28 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor: Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 483 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Page 370 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.