The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8G. Bell, 1875 |
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Page 68
... expression at that time . 15 Pope changed inhabit , the reading of the old copy , to inhibit . To inhibit is to forbid , a meaning which will not suit with the context of the passage . The original text is sufficiently plain . " Dare me ...
... expression at that time . 15 Pope changed inhabit , the reading of the old copy , to inhibit . To inhibit is to forbid , a meaning which will not suit with the context of the passage . The original text is sufficiently plain . " Dare me ...
Page 79
... had said and done . " 20 Haa I three ears , I'd hear thee . This singular expression probably means no more than , I will listen to thee with all at- tention . The power of man , for none of woman born SC . I. 79 MACBETH .
... had said and done . " 20 Haa I three ears , I'd hear thee . This singular expression probably means no more than , I will listen to thee with all at- tention . The power of man , for none of woman born SC . I. 79 MACBETH .
Page 89
... e . must still look as it does . An expression of a similar nature occurs in Measure for Measure : - " Good alone Is good ; without a name vileness is so . " Great tyranny , lay thou thy basis sure , For SC . III . 89 MACBETH .
... e . must still look as it does . An expression of a similar nature occurs in Measure for Measure : - " Good alone Is good ; without a name vileness is so . " Great tyranny , lay thou thy basis sure , For SC . III . 89 MACBETH .
Page 93
... expression is derived from the Sacred Writings : - : - " I protest by your rejoicing , which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord , I die daily . " - 1 Cor . xv . 31 . At a point , i . e . at a stay or stop , settled , determined . The Rev ...
... expression is derived from the Sacred Writings : - : - " I protest by your rejoicing , which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord , I die daily . " - 1 Cor . xv . 31 . At a point , i . e . at a stay or stop , settled , determined . The Rev ...
Page 101
... expressing the same feeling : Will all great Neptune's ocean wash the blood clean from this hand ? ' And how appropriately either sex ... expression or gesture . " Doct . Foul whisp'rings are abroad : Unnatural deeds Do SC . I. 101 MACBETH .
... expressing the same feeling : Will all great Neptune's ocean wash the blood clean from this hand ? ' And how appropriately either sex ... expression or gesture . " Doct . Foul whisp'rings are abroad : Unnatural deeds Do SC . I. 101 MACBETH .
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Banquo blood called Cordelia Corn Cymbeline daughter dead dear death Denmark devil dost doth Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Fleance folio reads Fool Gent gentleman Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give Gloster Goneril grace grief Guil Hamlet hand hast hath hear heart heaven Hecate Holinshed honour Horatio is't Julius Cæsar Kent King Henry King Lear knave Lady Laer Laertes Lear letter look lord Macb Macbeth Macd Macduff madam Malone means murder nature night noble old copy reads omitted Ophelia Othello passage play poet poison'd POLONIUS poor pray quarto of 1603 quartos read Queen Regan Rosse SCENE sense Shakespeare signifies sister sleep soul speak speech spirit Steevens Stew sword tell thane thee There's thine thing thought villain Winter's Tale Witch word
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Page 17 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? 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 heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 229 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law : but 'tis not so above ; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 234 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 209 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 134 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of...
Page 251 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 211 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 209 - ... accent of christians, nor the gait of christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 153 - Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 322 - Lear. Let it be so, — thy truth, then, be thy dower : For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And, as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee, from this, for ever.