The Plays of William Shakspeare ...C. Bathurst, 1785 |
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... appears to have been tranflated by Raoul le Feure , at Cologne , into French , from whom Caxton rendered it into Eng- lish in 1471 , under the title of his Recuyel , & c . fo that there must have been yet fome earlier edition of Guido's ...
... appears to have been tranflated by Raoul le Feure , at Cologne , into French , from whom Caxton rendered it into Eng- lish in 1471 , under the title of his Recuyel , & c . fo that there must have been yet fome earlier edition of Guido's ...
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... appears that the rival playhoufes at that time made frequent depreda- tions on one another's copies . In the Induction to the Male- content , written by Webfter , and augmented by Marston , 1606 , is the following paffage : " I wonder ...
... appears that the rival playhoufes at that time made frequent depreda- tions on one another's copies . In the Induction to the Male- content , written by Webfter , and augmented by Marston , 1606 , is the following paffage : " I wonder ...
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... appears to have been the first poet in England who fold the fame piece to diffe- rent people . Voltaire is much ... appear in the list of the plays , and is thruft in between the hiftories and the tragedies without any enu- meration of ...
... appears to have been the first poet in England who fold the fame piece to diffe- rent people . Voltaire is much ... appear in the list of the plays , and is thruft in between the hiftories and the tragedies without any enu- meration of ...
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... appear that Hector was to fight on foot rather to - day , than on any other day ? It is to be remembered , that the ... appears from different paffages in this play , that Hector fights on horseback ; and it fhould be remembered , that ...
... appear that Hector was to fight on foot rather to - day , than on any other day ? It is to be remembered , that the ... appears from different paffages in this play , that Hector fights on horseback ; and it fhould be remembered , that ...
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... appears not to have understood the paffage . That to give the nod fignifies to fet a mark of folly , I do not know ; the allufion is to the word noddy , which , as now , did in our author's time , and long before , fignify a filly ...
... appears not to have understood the paffage . That to give the nod fignifies to fet a mark of folly , I do not know ; the allufion is to the word noddy , which , as now , did in our author's time , and long before , fignify a filly ...
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Page 601 - Kent. Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 302 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 486 - LEAR. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Page 476 - Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep : — • I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep : — O, fool, I shall go mad ! {Exeunt LEAR, GLOSTER, KENT, and Fool.
Page 559 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 558 - Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 572 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 378 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty : ; Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 35 - But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Page 594 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth.