The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... STEEVENS . 7 - element- ] No initiation , no previous practices . Ele- ments are the first principles of things , or rudiments of knowledge . The word is here applied , not without a catachrefis , to a perfon . JOHNSON . 8 no man's pie ...
... STEEVENS . 7 - element- ] No initiation , no previous practices . Ele- ments are the first principles of things , or rudiments of knowledge . The word is here applied , not without a catachrefis , to a perfon . JOHNSON . 8 no man's pie ...
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... Steevens . MALONE . 3 A gift that heaven gives for him , which buys A place next to the king . ] It is evident a word or two in the fentence is mifplaced , and that we should read : A gift that heaven gives ; which buys for him A place ...
... Steevens . MALONE . 3 A gift that heaven gives for him , which buys A place next to the king . ] It is evident a word or two in the fentence is mifplaced , and that we should read : A gift that heaven gives ; which buys for him A place ...
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... STEEVENS . 5the file ] That is , the lift . JOHNSON . So , in Meafure for Meafure : " The greater file of the subject held the duke for wife . " Again , in Macbeth : 66 -I have a file " Of all the gentry . 39 STEEVENS . 6 -council out ...
... STEEVENS . 5the file ] That is , the lift . JOHNSON . So , in Meafure for Meafure : " The greater file of the subject held the duke for wife . " Again , in Macbeth : 66 -I have a file " Of all the gentry . 39 STEEVENS . 6 -council out ...
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... STEEVENS . A full - hot horfe ; ] So , Maflinger , in The Unnatural Combat : " Let paflion work , and , like a hot - rein'd horfe , " " Twill quickly tire itself . " STEEVENS , Again , in our author's Rape of Lucrece : 2 “ Till , like a ...
... STEEVENS . A full - hot horfe ; ] So , Maflinger , in The Unnatural Combat : " Let paflion work , and , like a hot - rein'd horfe , " " Twill quickly tire itself . " STEEVENS , Again , in our author's Rape of Lucrece : 2 “ Till , like a ...
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... STEEVENS . 8 The many to them ' longing , ] The many is the meiny , the train , the people . Dryden is , perhaps , the laft that ufed this word : " The kings before their many rode . " JOHNSON . I believe the many is only the multitude ...
... STEEVENS . 8 The many to them ' longing , ] The many is the meiny , the train , the people . Dryden is , perhaps , the laft that ufed this word : " The kings before their many rode . " JOHNSON . I believe the many is only the multitude ...
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Page 131 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 543 - Demand me nothing ; what you know, you know : From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 76 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 137 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 132 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 135 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of...
Page 136 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Page 252 - Amidst the other : whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad : but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander.
Page 131 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, }Never to hope again.
Page 350 - There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never meddle) in the soul of state; Which hath an operation more divine, Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to...