The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 9C. and A. Conrad, 1807 |
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... Johnson . The virtues of the agate were anciently supposed to protect the wearer from any misfortune . So , in Greene's Mamilia , 1593 : " the man that hath the stone agathes about him , is surely de- fenced against adversity ...
... Johnson . The virtues of the agate were anciently supposed to protect the wearer from any misfortune . So , in Greene's Mamilia , 1593 : " the man that hath the stone agathes about him , is surely de- fenced against adversity ...
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... Johnson . 66 How you were borne in hand , how cross'd . " Steevens . if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up , ] That is , if a man by taking up goods is in their debt . To be thorough seems to be the same with the present ...
... Johnson . 66 How you were borne in hand , how cross'd . " Steevens . if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up , ] That is , if a man by taking up goods is in their debt . To be thorough seems to be the same with the present ...
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... Johnson . Dr. Johnson's explanation may be countenanced by the follow- ing passage in Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tub : 66 Do you mean to make a hare " Of me , to hunt counter thus , and make these doubles , " And you mean no such thing as ...
... Johnson . Dr. Johnson's explanation may be countenanced by the follow- ing passage in Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tub : 66 Do you mean to make a hare " Of me , to hunt counter thus , and make these doubles , " And you mean no such thing as ...
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... Johnson . The same quibble has already occurred in Love's Labour's Lost , Act V , sc . ii : That was the way to make ... Johnson . 5 6 in these coster - monger times , ] In these times when the prevalence of trade has produced that ...
... Johnson . The same quibble has already occurred in Love's Labour's Lost , Act V , sc . ii : That was the way to make ... Johnson . 5 6 in these coster - monger times , ] In these times when the prevalence of trade has produced that ...
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... Johnson . I believe all that Shakspeare meant was , that he had more fat than wit ; that though his body was bloated ... Johnson's explanation of this passage is not conceived with his usual judgment . - It does not appear that ...
... Johnson . I believe all that Shakspeare meant was , that he had more fat than wit ; that though his body was bloated ... Johnson's explanation of this passage is not conceived with his usual judgment . - It does not appear that ...
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Page 327 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 328 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 88 - Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 85 - 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 7 - Open your ears ; For which of you will stop The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks ? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Page 269 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England! and saint George ! [Exeunt.
Page 187 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy scapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy.
Page 200 - 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 183 - I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers : How ill white hairs become a fool and jester...