The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth . The first play ends , he says , with the peaceful settlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels . This is hardly true ; for the rebels are not yet finally ...
... called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth . The first play ends , he says , with the peaceful settlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels . This is hardly true ; for the rebels are not yet finally ...
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... called Report , apparelled in crimson sattin , full of toongs , or chronicles . " Vol . iii . p . 805 . This however might be the common way of representing this personage in masques , which were frequent in his own times . T. WARTON ...
... called Report , apparelled in crimson sattin , full of toongs , or chronicles . " Vol . iii . p . 805 . This however might be the common way of representing this personage in masques , which were frequent in his own times . T. WARTON ...
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... called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Besides , I'll give you the keeping of a dozen jades , " And now and then meat for you and your horse . " This is said by a farmer to a courtier . STEEVENS . Shakspeare , however , ( as Mr ...
... called A Knack to know a Knave , 1594 : " Besides , I'll give you the keeping of a dozen jades , " And now and then meat for you and your horse . " This is said by a farmer to a courtier . STEEVENS . Shakspeare , however , ( as Mr ...
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... called the passing bell , i . e . the bell that solicited prayers for the soul passing into another world . STEEVENS . I am inclined to think that this bell might have been originally used to drive away demons who were watching to take ...
... called the passing bell , i . e . the bell that solicited prayers for the soul passing into another world . STEEVENS . I am inclined to think that this bell might have been originally used to drive away demons who were watching to take ...
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... called Law Tricks , or Who would have thought it ? 1608 , describes an apothecary thus : - his house is set round with patients twice or thrice a day , and because they'll be sure not to want drink , every one brings his own water in an ...
... called Law Tricks , or Who would have thought it ? 1608 , describes an apothecary thus : - his house is set round with patients twice or thrice a day , and because they'll be sure not to want drink , every one brings his own water in an ...
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Page 105 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 261 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 284 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this...
Page 23 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 112 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 337 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...