Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare: Resulting from a Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together with Some Valuable Extracts from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable John, Lord Chedworth, Issue 1J. Wright, 1805 |
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... face , " Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek . " 287. " Too light- This was an opportunity for a quibble too tempting to be omitted . SCENE VII . 292. " Let all of his complexion chuse me so . " Dr. Johnson's suggested regulation ...
... face , " Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek . " 287. " Too light- This was an opportunity for a quibble too tempting to be omitted . SCENE VII . 292. " Let all of his complexion chuse me so . " Dr. Johnson's suggested regulation ...
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... face ? " I cannot help repeating here the ostler's phrase : " I wish I had as many guineas as I have cur- ried a horse . " Perhaps we might read , with some approach to concord , " What stars so spangle heaven with their beauty , " As ...
... face ? " I cannot help repeating here the ostler's phrase : " I wish I had as many guineas as I have cur- ried a horse . " Perhaps we might read , with some approach to concord , " What stars so spangle heaven with their beauty , " As ...
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... faces " Of the rocks and stony places . " 87. " Had I so sworn , " & c . This is most judiciously put ; the savageness of the sentiment is not only mitigated by the idea of the speaker's acting under the obligation of an oath , but the ...
... faces " Of the rocks and stony places . " 87. " Had I so sworn , " & c . This is most judiciously put ; the savageness of the sentiment is not only mitigated by the idea of the speaker's acting under the obligation of an oath , but the ...
Page 204
... faces vizards to our hearts , Disguising what they are . " < 6 This is not sufficient ; the lady , though prompt enough to concur in mischief , does not perceive his drift ; and taking notice only of his disorder , says , You must leave ...
... faces vizards to our hearts , Disguising what they are . " < 6 This is not sufficient ; the lady , though prompt enough to concur in mischief , does not perceive his drift ; and taking notice only of his disorder , says , You must leave ...
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... face , into the apartment where the King is feasting his peers , and the ac- count of the murder , delivered at such a time , appears so unskilful and improbable , that though the scene is not without some colour of our au- thor's ...
... face , into the apartment where the King is feasting his peers , and the ac- count of the murder , delivered at such a time , appears so unskilful and improbable , that though the scene is not without some colour of our au- thor's ...
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66 SCENE accentuation admit allusion appears Banquo believe better blood called censure conjecture Coriolanus corruption Cymbeline death dissyllable doth Duke ellipsis emendation expression eyes Falstaff fear give grace grief Hamlet hand hast hath heart heaven hemistic Henry VI honour Hotspur hypermeter implies instance Johnson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear lady LORD CHEDWORTH Macbeth Malone Malone's Mason meaning measure Measure for Measure metre Milton murder nature never noun numbers occurs omitted Othello Paradise Lost passage peace perhaps phrase play pleonasm poet poet's present pronoun quarto remarks Richard Romeo and Juliet SCENE II seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sleep soul speak speech stand Steevens Steevens's strange STRUTT suppose sure sweet sword syllable Tacitus tell thee thing thou thought tion tongue trisyllable true uttered verb verse virtue wanting Warburton word
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Page 188 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 188 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 346 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 24 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 44 - Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries ; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which : And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension: We are their parents and original.
Page 357 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 56 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 188 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 409 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.