The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index, Volume 13 |
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... King Henry VIII : " He's traitor to the height . " " Steevens . 6 7 Our business & c . ] This and all the subsequent plebeian speeches in this scene are given in the old copy to the second Citizen . But the dialogue at the opening of ...
... King Henry VIII : " He's traitor to the height . " " Steevens . 6 7 Our business & c . ] This and all the subsequent plebeian speeches in this scene are given in the old copy to the second Citizen . But the dialogue at the opening of ...
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... King Henry V , where seat is used in the same sense as here ; Vol . IX , p . 227 , n . 4. Malone . 1 the cranks and offices of man , ] Cranks are the mean- drous ducts of the human body . Steevens . Cranks are windings . So , in Venus ...
... King Henry V , where seat is used in the same sense as here ; Vol . IX , p . 227 , n . 4. Malone . 1 the cranks and offices of man , ] Cranks are the mean- drous ducts of the human body . Steevens . Cranks are windings . So , in Venus ...
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... King Henry VIII , with only a slight variation in the spelling : " I'll peck you o'er the pales else . " See Vol . XI , p . 352 , n . 3. Malone . 2 the heart of generosity . ] To give the final blow to the nobles . Generosity is high ...
... King Henry VIII , with only a slight variation in the spelling : " I'll peck you o'er the pales else . " See Vol . XI , p . 352 , n . 3. Malone . 2 the heart of generosity . ] To give the final blow to the nobles . Generosity is high ...
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... King Henry VIII : 3 To - day he puts forth " The tender leaves of hope , to - morrow blossoms , " & c . Malone to gird- ] To sneer , to gibe . So Falstaff uses the noun , when he says , every man has a gird at me . Johnson . Again , in ...
... King Henry VIII : 3 To - day he puts forth " The tender leaves of hope , to - morrow blossoms , " & c . Malone to gird- ] To sneer , to gibe . So Falstaff uses the noun , when he says , every man has a gird at me . Johnson . Again , in ...
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... King Henry VI , P. III : " From London by the king was I press'd forth . " Malone . To keep your great pretences veil'd , till when They CORIOLANUS . 19 SCENE II. ...
... King Henry VI , P. III : " From London by the king was I press'd forth . " Malone . To keep your great pretences veil'd , till when They CORIOLANUS . 19 SCENE II. ...
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Page 131 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 187 - NAY, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front...
Page 12 - Who deserves greatness, Deserves your hate* and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye 1 With every minute you do change a mind ; And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
Page 401 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip : — Yare, yare, good Iras ; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony call ; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act...
Page 388 - His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Page 372 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 381 - My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Page 190 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Page 319 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i