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... better editions than this. The First Volume contains The Text, with a collation of the texts of the Quartos and Folios, and of some thirty modern editions, togethei with Notes and Comments from the Editors whose texts are collated, and ...
... better editions than this. The First Volume contains The Text, with a collation of the texts of the Quartos and Folios, and of some thirty modern editions, togethei with Notes and Comments from the Editors whose texts are collated, and ...
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... better word. 98. lawless] Tschischwitz : The reading of the Ff is certainly the better; had ' lawless ' been meant, the more usual word outlaws would have been used. No young noble warrior like Fortinbras would have made common cause ...
... better word. 98. lawless] Tschischwitz : The reading of the Ff is certainly the better; had ' lawless ' been meant, the more usual word outlaws would have been used. No young noble warrior like Fortinbras would have made common cause ...
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... better to read ' climature ' with Dyce. The French climature appears to be a modern word in that language, for it is not found in Cot- grave, and Littre gives no early example of its use. 127. White: The stage direction of the Qq may be ...
... better to read ' climature ' with Dyce. The French climature appears to be a modern word in that language, for it is not found in Cot- grave, and Littre gives no early example of its use. 127. White: The stage direction of the Qq may be ...
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... better wisdoms, which have freely gone 15 With this affair along. For all, our thanks. Now follows, that you know, yonng Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of oui worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother's death Our state to be ...
... better wisdoms, which have freely gone 15 With this affair along. For all, our thanks. Now follows, that you know, yonng Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of oui worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother's death Our state to be ...
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... better than groaning ?'— or to a contemptuous exultation in minds vulgarized and overset by their success, as in the poetic instance of Milton's Devils in the battle ; or it is the language of resentment, as is familiar to every one who ...
... better than groaning ?'— or to a contemptuous exultation in minds vulgarized and overset by their success, as in the poetic instance of Milton's Devils in the battle ; or it is the language of resentment, as is familiar to every one who ...
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Page 396 - ... in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What 's that, my lord ? Ham. Dost...
Page 303 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, , : . • . . That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 199 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 82 - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 233 - 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 291 - 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 232 - And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself...