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 16 |
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... honest wills , Which seasons comfort.9 - Who may this be ? Fy ! 7 O , that husband ! My supreme crown of grief ! ] Imogen means to say , that her separation from her husband is the completion of her distress . So , in King Lear : " This ...
... honest wills , Which seasons comfort.9 - Who may this be ? Fy ! 7 O , that husband ! My supreme crown of grief ! ] Imogen means to say , that her separation from her husband is the completion of her distress . So , in King Lear : " This ...
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... honest wills , With reason's comfort.- Who gratify their innocent wishes with reasonable enjoyments . Johnson . I shall venture at another explanation , which , as the last words are admitted to be equivocal , may be proposed . " To be ...
... honest wills , With reason's comfort.- Who gratify their innocent wishes with reasonable enjoyments . Johnson . I shall venture at another explanation , which , as the last words are admitted to be equivocal , may be proposed . " To be ...
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... honest freedom ; paid More pious debts to heaven , than in all world : The fore - end of my time . - But , up to the mountains ; This is not hunters ' language : -He , that strikes The venison first , shall be the lord o ' the feast ...
... honest freedom ; paid More pious debts to heaven , than in all world : The fore - end of my time . - But , up to the mountains ; This is not hunters ' language : -He , that strikes The venison first , shall be the lord o ' the feast ...
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... was on the back of Justice Greedy , a character in Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts . Steevens . VOL . XVI . K Imo . True honest men being heard , like false CYMBELINE . 93 Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion ...
... was on the back of Justice Greedy , a character in Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts . Steevens . VOL . XVI . K Imo . True honest men being heard , like false CYMBELINE . 93 Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion ...
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... honest men being heard , like false Æneas , Were , in his time , thought false : and Sinon's weeping Did scandal many a holy tear ; took pity From most true wretchedness : So , thou , Posthúmus , Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men ...
... honest men being heard , like false Æneas , Were , in his time , thought false : and Sinon's weeping Did scandal many a holy tear ; took pity From most true wretchedness : So , thou , Posthúmus , Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men ...
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Page 417 - tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires; — Where should Othello go? — Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Page 327 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 419 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well...
Page 202 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end...
Page 233 - These things to hear, Would Desdemona seriously incline : But still the house affairs would draw her thence ; Which ever as she could with haste despatch, She 'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : — which I observing, Took once a pliant hour ; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 318 - Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt; For she had eyes, and chose me...
Page 293 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Page 229 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 418 - Demand me nothing: What you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 235 - twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...