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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... word befide . Opinion , I believe , means here , as in one of the parts of King Henry IV . character . [ " Thou hast redeem'd thy loft opinion . " King Henry IV . Part I. Vol . VIII . p . 585. ] To realize and fulfil the expectations ...
... word befide . Opinion , I believe , means here , as in one of the parts of King Henry IV . character . [ " Thou hast redeem'd thy loft opinion . " King Henry IV . Part I. Vol . VIII . p . 585. ] To realize and fulfil the expectations ...
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... word ftory was not intended to make a double , but merely a single rhyme , though , it must be acknowledged , a very ... words women and story . A rhyme of the fame kind occurs in The Knight of the Burning Pestle , where Master ...
... word ftory was not intended to make a double , but merely a single rhyme , though , it must be acknowledged , a very ... words women and story . A rhyme of the fame kind occurs in The Knight of the Burning Pestle , where Master ...
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... word is here applied , not without a catachrefis , to a person . 8 - no man's pic is free'd JOHNSON . From his ambitious finger . ] To have a finger in the pie , is a proverbial phrafe . See Ray , 244. REED . 9 - fierce vanities ...
... word is here applied , not without a catachrefis , to a person . 8 - no man's pic is free'd JOHNSON . From his ambitious finger . ] To have a finger in the pie , is a proverbial phrafe . See Ray , 244. REED . 9 - fierce vanities ...
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... word are given in a note on Romeo and Juliet , Act I. sc . iii . STEEVENS . 8 To cope- ] To engage with ; to encounter . The word is ftill used in some counties . JOHNSON . So , in As you like it : " I love to cope him in these sullen ...
... word are given in a note on Romeo and Juliet , Act I. sc . iii . STEEVENS . 8 To cope- ] To engage with ; to encounter . The word is ftill used in some counties . JOHNSON . So , in As you like it : " I love to cope him in these sullen ...
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... words of fovereignty . K. HEN . How know'st thou this ? SURV . Not long before your highness sped to France , The duke being at the Rose , within the parish Saint Lawrence Poultney , did of me demand What was the speech amongst the ...
... words of fovereignty . K. HEN . How know'st thou this ? SURV . Not long before your highness sped to France , The duke being at the Rose , within the parish Saint Lawrence Poultney , did of me demand What was the speech amongst the ...
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Page 129 - 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 541 - Demand me nothing ; what you know, you know : From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 74 - 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 135 - 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 130 - 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 133 - 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 134 - 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 248 - 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 129 - 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 348 - 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...